Hi WanMil
the new mkgmap version now appears at other builds but the main download still links to r2889. Can you please have a look on it if you are back again?
OK I have now set it so that it should be updated tonight.
And thanks for posting the news item about it. I was going to suggest that we need such a post and that you (and Gerd) are able to post updates yourselves, but then I saw that you discovered that anyway ;)
I'll quickly explain what is happening with the download page.
A while back someone on the forums said that it was confusing to know which build to download. I thought that was a fair comment for someone coming to the project for the first time.
So I added the green download button which is meant to be for a reasonably stable version. On the other hand a new build is created for every commit to trunk and the branches immediately after they are committed.
I don't really know the best way to update the 'green' download so suggestions are welcome. Currently it updates every night to the latest version unless a particular version has been pinned. I was thinking of a way to mark a particular build as bad if it had regressions and a way to stop updates for a few days after a merge or something simple like that.
For reference: the following binary and source formats are produced for every build. They all exist for each build (trunk and branch) whether linked to or not.
mkgmap-rNNN.jar mkgmap-rNNN.tar.gz mkgmap-rNNN.zip mkgmap-rNNN-src.zip mkgmap-rNNN-src.tar.gz
The -rNNN- part can be replaced with -latest- in any of these to get the most up to date version.
Everything is exactly the same for splitter.
..Steve
Hi Steve, thanks for the explanation! I think the big green download button is a good idea! Maybe we can track the latest stable version number in Subversion? Create a file called stable.version that contains the stable Subversion revision. This revision is checked out for building the stable release. This would allow all committers to change the stable release. As a rule of thumb we should update the stable release around once a month. People who want to work with the latest release can download them in the list below. That sounds fair enough. WanMil