[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Development Strategies [Was Documentation, Usability and Development]

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Too much coffee .. I'm pressing 'send' too early.

I wrote:

> There is a related plan I've had that  - as usual -  I haven't had
> time to implement.  Namely, a simple system for automated compilation
> of Freeciv+patches on civserver.freeciv.org.  It would be implemented
> with a Makefile.
> 
> At the moment, we have a Makefile that fetches the CVS tree, applies
> any patches from a given directory, configures, compiles, and starts
> the resulting civserver.  We take the set of pending patches in the
> bug tracking system, and instead of applying all of them, allow users

[rest of description omitted]

What I meant to write here was:  This existing system can be extended
as follows.  At the moment it uses a fixed list of patches.  In the
system to be built, we instead take the set of pending patches in the
bug tracking system, and instead of applying all of them, allow users
[etc.]

  With apologies,

-- 
Reinier