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dvdhrm / kmscon

Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon
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Could you do a new release? #66

Closed cl91 closed 11 years ago

cl91 commented 11 years ago

The latest release kmscon-6, which is packaged by Archlinux, does not have an important fix regarding multi-cell characters (commit 0de1de25fd67827149a7efb5cf2c3b309e2222d8, which happened after the release of kmscon-6). Could you do a new release so that Archlinux maintainer can package the fix?

dvdhrm commented 11 years ago

I hoped to get the uterm-rewrite in-place for kmscon-7 but I really should do a bugfix release. I will try to get it out tomorrow.

Thanks for the reminder! David

dvdhrm commented 11 years ago

Ok, I prepared everything for a bugfix release but then noticed that github removed the "Downloads" section. That is, I have no proper way to upload tar-balls. I applied for a freedesktop.org project to fix this, but it may take a while. If I cannot get a place to upload my future tarballs until Sunday, I will do the release anyway and distributions have to deal with it.

Cheers David

cl91 commented 11 years ago

I've noticed that if you add a tag to your project github will provide the zip and tar.gz download link, in https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon/tags. On this page there are tarball download links for each tag you added. I'm not sure but it seems you just have to add a new tag and everything will be done automatically?

Note that tags aren't pushed by default, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5312651/how-do-i-use-github-tags-to-create-downloads-for-my-project. And this might help too: http://wptheming.com/2011/04/add-remove-github-tags/

dvdhrm commented 11 years ago

Github allows to download any tree as zip file, that's not the problem. But release tarballs include pre-built autotool files like "configure" and other stuff (done with "make dist"). Hence, I need a way to upload the pre-built tar-ball.

I could just push the pre-built stuff into the repository, but I dislike that. Sadly, github-people don't realize that release tarballs are more than just a repository snapshot.