r22869 - gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32 - Win32 build: Can we get along without libgsf-gnome?

[John Ralls]

On Apr 5, 2013, at 9:15 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Probably not. You can get a win32 binary at
>>>> http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4-windows.zip
>>> 
>>> Even better, the 'tar' we have on the builder doesn't support -J either.
>>> How frustrating!  Why did gnome do this?  Or do they just not care about
>>> Windows anymore?  Yet another reason to punt Gnome/Gtk.  Blah!
>> 
>> They did it because xz makes smaller archives than bz2, and they store a *lot* of archives.
>> 
>> As for tar support, why does that matter? `foocat file.tar.fooz | tar xf -` works for all.
> 
> Fair enough..  But it would require pulling down xzcat early in the
> build script, and integrating that into the build as another way to
> unpackage.  Much more work than just reverting to the last .bz2 tarball
> ;)

For now, yes. At some point we'll have to do it. It's still a lot less work than switching!

Meanwhile: Christian retagged 2.5.0 again, but not until 0400 EDT. Yesterday's trunk build didn't finish until almost 1700, and today's hasn't finished yet. Did you change the times in the cron job or is something taking a long time? Can you give 2.5.0 a shove?

Regards,
John Ralls