Re: [Gnash] How about snapshots?

[Rob Savoye]

Dmitry Marakasov wrote:

> I wonder why are there no snapshots of gnash released?

  Because it's under heavy development with daily CVS checkins. I was 
mostly waiting till I get the plugin to stabilize. I guess if people 
*really* wanted a snapshot, I could make one...

> If snapshots were available I could've update FreeBSD port of gnash
> to more recent version (not it uses old gnash-20051226.tar.gz, the
> only snapshot released ever, AFAIK). That'll make it possible for

  That snapshot was only for GNU project acceptance, and shouldn't be 
used for distribution. It's not in very good shape... and basically is 
to make sure all the licensing and GNU coding standards are met.

> huge FreeBSD community to run and test gnash in different environments
> on different architectures - there will definitely be more people
> interested in trying out port than these who'll get sources from
> CVS and compile them by hand. Why not release a snapshot?

  Is grabbing the sources from CVS that difficult ? You mean a binary 
snapshot so people don't have to compile anything ?

        - rob -