Re: [bug-mailutils] Nightly snapshot and release questions

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Kostas Zorbadelos <address@hidden> wrote:

> However I cannot build a snapshot when I
> checkout anonymously the code from the repository 
> (with export CVS_RSH="ssh"
> and
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/mailutils co
> mailutils)

Could you please list the error messages you get?

> The link http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs.backups/mailutils.tar.gz that
> contains snapshots is also broken.

Where did you get this link? The correct URL is
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs-backup/mailutils-sources.tar.gz.

> Can I have a buildable version of
> mailutils based on a current snapshot?

I will prepare it for you. Visit
ftp://download.gnu.org.ua/pub/alpha/mailutils later today.

> Also, when do you think you will make a release (0.6.91) containing
> the bugfixes?

Recently mailutils has undergone a number of major changes, which, among
other consequences, will lead to raising its major version
number. There will be at least three alpha releases before the stable one.
I plan to release the nearest alpha version in two weeks.

Regards,
Sergey