Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >> surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old >> git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it >> would help people to try out and find wrinkles before the real >> thing for me to cut a tarball and a set of RPM packages. >> >> Comments? > > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > increase the number of testers. Hint: how often do you try random > software that requires that you first install CVS, SVN or arch just to > get it, compared to how often you try random software provided as tar.gz ? > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall. RPMS are nicely divided into (sub)packages, so you need CVS indtalled only if you install git-cvs package, for example to interact with CVS. git-core has minimal dependencies. To compile git you truly don't need other software installed (1.5.0 for example does not require RCS anymore for RCS merge). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html