[racket-dev] snapshot builds

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 6 15:06:32 EDT 2013

At Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:02:40 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > From now on, the current snapshot build on "www.cs.utah.edu" will be at
> >
> >   http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/
> >
> > (The latest snapshot does not yet fix the "aces.png" error that Sam
> > reported.)
> 
> Would it be possible to have the most recent snapshot at a link that
> doesn't depend on the date/commit hash, for more permanently linking?

The page

  http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/

now links to installers through a "current" link (which is a symlink to
the current snapshot directory on the server side). Is that what you
had in mind?

> > If anyone else is interested in creating snapshots, I think the
> > makefile and instructions are ready to try out.
> >
> > The "INSTALL.txt" file now has detailed information on site
> > configurations, including some example configuration files as the end.
> > As one more example, below is the configuration file for the snapshots
> > at "www.cs.utah.edu".
> 
> Might it be useful to split this into a separate text file?
> INSTALL.txt is quite long now.

Ok, I moved that information to "pkgs/distro-build/doc.txt".


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