I'm a stupid GIT

[Richard Gaskin]

Richmond Mathewson wrote:

 > How about an impatient chap whose GANTT chart of his 4th SDLC has
 > been completely thrown out of kilter owing to a bug (19045) in
 > existing builds of LiveCode, knowing that that bug has been sorted
 > out but that the next official RC build is waiting on at least
 > another 4 bugs being sorted out . . .
 >
 > Am I daft to want to try to build an unofficial "8.1.2 and a half" to
 > see if the bug has really been sorted out, or would I be more
 > sensible to "bite down hard" and hang on for an official build?

I guess that would depend on how comfortable you are in setting up the 
environment need to run the make file.

I've not done it myself so I can't advise; maybe Mark Wieder or one of 
the core team folks can offer guidance if you get stuck.

I should probably get around to setting that up myself sometime, but I'm 
a scripter at heart and do primarily UX/UI by trade, so it's been a low 
priority for me.  And with the turnaround time the team's been doing 
lately, just about every time I think I may want to set that up a new 
build is available so I haven't needed to.

I very much appreciate that the team often includes a link to the Github 
pull request in the Bugzilla report it relates to, such as this one Mark 
Waddingham included for #19045:

https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/5020

I've found that reading the comments at those links can help me better 
understand the scope of a change.

And when I see the Vulcan (automated test system) report "pass" I feel 
pretty confident it's gone well, such as we see there in a comment from 
two days ago:

   livecode-vulcan commented 2 days ago
     :sunglasses: test success 5deb2cd
     try-community-linux-x86: success
     try-community-mac: success
     try-community-linux-x86_64: success
     try-community-emscripten: success
     try-community-ios: success
     try-community-win-x86: success
     try-community-android-armv6: success

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  Richard Gaskin
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