[Privoxy-devel] Hosting binary package builder projects at privoxy.org

[Ian Silvester]

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, at 15:40, Lee wrote:
> On 7/1/18, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Thanks Lee,
> >
> > I'll use the same approach then for my two erstwhile CVS modules. I'll
> > double-check but I'm pretty sure I have only non-binary files in the both of
> > them. One question - what is branch 'lee' for? What's the advantage of not
> > putting them in the 'master' branch? Or is lee only a local branch for you?
> 
> It's my playpen for in-progress stuff & things Fabian won't accept.
> I'll merge whatever I think is ready for release into 'master' and
> push that.  ... Along with I'm a bit concerned that someday I'll
> forget & do a push of my stuph; at least this way it'll all be in a
> separate branch & easy to remove.

Got it  - nice idea to use your github as a non-critical check-in playground - an idea I will borrow! 

> > I don't see the 'windows' subdir when I pull the latest 'master' branch
> 
> take a look at https://github.com/ler762/privoxy

Ah-hah! Yes, becomes clear now.
 
> > Related - can you tell I'm a git newb?
> 
> Same here - I still haven't figured it out.
> 
> I was hoping that pushing everything up to github would allow people
> to browse the .html files in doc/webserver/whatever...   which they
> can, but they show up as the awful docbook auto-generated text files
> instead of being interpreted as html source :(

Ah yeah - like an in-development preview - shame it didn't pan out.

Right, onwards..

Ian



> Lee
> 
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > My PGP public key[http://silvester.org.uk/IanSilvesterPGPPublicKey.asc]
> >
> > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, at 13:27, Lee wrote:
> >> On 7/1/18, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >> > Hi Fabian,
> >> >
> >> > I've finally found some time to update the developer docs, and it has
> >> > caused me to realise that the macOS/iOS binary builder projects are
> >> > still hosted solely at Sourceforge. Is there any chance these too could
> >> > be migrated to privoxy.org? The module names still in use are:
> >> > iOSPackageBuilder
> >> > OSXPackageBuilder
> >>
> >> I created a windows directory for the old winsetup/ files:
> >> $ git status
> >> On branch lee
> >> Changes to be committed:
> >>   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> >>
> >>         new file:   windows/.gitignore
> >>         new file:   windows/GNUmakefile
> >>         new file:   windows/MYconfigure
> >>         new file:   windows/WinMessages.nsh
> >>         new file:   windows/privoxy.ico
> >>         new file:   windows/privoxy_winthreads.nsi
> >>         new file:   windows/uninstall_privoxy.ico
> >>
> >>
> >> Fabian doesn't want [other?] programs in the git repository, so the
> >> windows build doc has to say where to get the nsis installer .zip
> >> file, where to extract it & the line that has to be adjusted in
> >> windows/GNUmakefile before one can build a privoxy windows installer.
> >>
> >> On the bright side, the windows newrelease section in the developers'
> >> doc is basically just
> >>   cd windows
> >>   make
> >> rename [these] files to include the version number, gpg sign & upload :)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Lee
> >