Improve release process

fare commented 7 months ago

[x] Get the build scripts to work perfectly with and without git present, including the handling of version.
[x] In particular, correctly handle the Gambit version in absence of git — generate src/gambit/include/stamp.h from manifest.
[x] The source tarball autogenerated by GitHub does not include the Gambit module. Fix that or work around it somehow?
[ ] Automate the production of binary tarballs, rpm and debian packages.
[x] A binary tarball for Linux depends on .so's that may or may not be present. Have a tarball or dependencies handy? (Heroku notably does not provide the sqlite.so that we need)

fare commented 7 months ago

It is probably too late to automate away these issues for v0.18.1, but hopefully we can get it all push-button or v0.18.2.

ober commented 7 months ago

yes we can.

iacore commented 4 months ago

Is there a way to build gerbil without gambit, since it is self-bootstrapped?

vyzo commented 4 months ago

no, we are very deeply integrated with gambit.

In principle you could bootstrap from another scheme however.

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