[horde] "Outside" modules to use with current ALPHA releases?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Greg Earle <earle at isolar.DynDNS.ORG>:

> On May 18, 2004, at 7:26 PM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>> Given that there's no longer an April 8th "snaps" directory, what
>>> versions of Sam/Klutz/Forwards/Vacation {are known to be compatible
>>> with}/{should I be using with} these ALPHA components?
>>
>> http://horde.org/source/versions.php
>>
>> In your case you need to update all modules to a newer CVS checkout or
>> snapshot.
>
> I had read that page before, but upon seeing this:
>
> "If you are not using the CVS HEAD version of Horde and you would like
>   to try out a specific application from CVS HEAD, you MUST either
>   upgrade Horde and all applications that you are using to CVS HEAD, or
>   install Horde HEAD separately for use with any HEAD applications that
>   you wish to test.  You can not just download one application from CVS
>   HEAD and expect it to work with other versions of Horde.
>
> Horde 3.0-ALPHA
>
>      * IMP 4.0-ALPHA
>      * Turba 2.0-ALPHA
>      * Ingo 1.0-ALPHA
>      * Chora 2.0-ALPHA
>      * Kronolith 2.0-ALPHA
>      * Nag 2.0-ALPHA
>      * Mnemo 2.0-ALPHA"
>
> I had assumed that this meant that the only way I could use current
> HEAD versions of the other components I need would be to use Horde
> 3.0 (HEAD) instead of Horde 3.0-ALPHA, which is what I don't want to
> do at the moment.  (It would give my management more warm fuzzies
> to say I was using ALPHA versions of components for our production
> mail server than if I said "Oh, just some CVS HEAD snapshots of the
> last day I was working on it" ;-)  )

The alpha releases are snapshots too.

> Ideally, I guess, I suppose that the best thing would be if I could
> get snapshots of Sam, Klutz, Forwards and Vacation from April 2nd,
> the same date of the ALPHA releases (not April 8th - my mistake, oops).
> (Right???  Or just try and see if my March 24th HEAD snaps still work?)
> But the snapshots are only kept for 1 week on the Horde site; does
> anyone keep older snapshots of CVS HEAD anywhere???

You can use regular cvs options to checkout a specific date.

> (I'm also curious why there were no ALPHA releases of Sam, Klutz,
>   Forwards, Vacation etc. etc. on April 2nd as well?)

Because we're simply not able to manage releases of 37 applications at once.
Thus we will release in "waves". First the "major" apps, then, step by
step, the remaining ones.

Jan.

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