Dev builds are back

Looks like progress on the matter of “Dev” products build from gitlab

Probably not building, since it looks like they haven’t found a solution for managing the “Dev” products yet.

Something made me look at the downloads page, and there they are, today’s Beta downloads!

A local build of the Titanium Dev ROM from the Source code tarball worked perfectly. This does derive from git as seen by the directory structure. (A slight trifle, !Prepare did not run automatically at the end of UnTarBZ2.)

Thanks all round.

Looks like progress on the matter of “Dev” products

Yup, like I said in the GitLab version history thread it came up on “new builds for bonus binaries, HardDisc4 and System in the usual places.”

Something made me look at the downloads page

Now that’s one I can’t claim anything for because I was monitoring the pages using a Firefox add-on (why have a dog and bark yourself)

HardDisc4 has /gitignore files scattered around PlingBoot.Library, RO310.Boot.x and Utilities.Patches. I assume those aren’t required as part of an install?

A slight trifle, !Prepare did not run automatically at the end of UnTarBZ2.

!UnTarBZ2.Tools.wrap is looking for prepare.!run but in the new scheme what is provided is !prepare.!run, and it is one directory level too far down.

This is work in progress but HTH.

HardDisc4 has /gitignore files scattered around PlingBoot.Library, RO310.Boot.x and Utilities.Patches.

Strangely these are not present in a local DiscDev build from the source code tarball but they are present in the beta HardDisc4 download.

And one does not have to wait until 10 o’clock either ATM. The Titanium is running today’s ROM, before breakfast.

A bit of caution though, this might best be thought of as a double beta, the Dev builds are beta and the build system is ‘work in progress’.

That said it is, in the main, looking rather good here.

And one does not have to wait until 10 o’clock either ATM. The Titanium is running today’s ROM, before breakfast.

I mentioned that 10am thing the other day, which I believe was set to trigger then to give the wheezy old server time to complete the builds. With the newer oil fired boiler installed last August things finish much earlier so ROOL have been able to pull in the transfer time.

HardDisc4 has /gitignore files scattered around PlingBoot.Library, RO310.Boot.x and Utilities.Patches. I assume those aren’t required as part of an install?

Correct.

And one does not have to wait until 10 o’clock either ATM. The Titanium is running today’s ROM, before breakfast.

Pity the revisions page is still stuck, though.

I have a little program wot I wrote which checks the downloads page (RPi) throughout the morning at intervals and notifies me if there’s a new one. It’s been a long wait!

This is the first time I’ve been able to get log-in to stick – and I’m not quite sure exactly how I did it either; it did involve deleting ROOpen cookies in Netsurf, but I’m not sure at exactly what point I did this to make it work. Will experiment!

Edit: and it stuck through a page reload as well!

The autobuilder has now been fixed to strip out the ‘/gitignore’ files, so the next time a nightly build gets done they’ll be gone.

Until a replacement for the CVS Revisions page is done, the best way to see recent changes is to look at https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/groups/RiscOS/-/activity

look at https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/groups/RiscOS/-/activity

Netsurf doesn’t appear to be able to display this page.

The autobuilder has now been fixed to strip out the ‘/gitignore’ files

The good news is that the HardDisc4 is now git-less, the scattered /gitignore files are gone.

The not quite so good news is that today’s, 2019-06-09, Dev ROMs have not built.

ARM Linker: (Error) Undefined symbol(s).
ARM Linker:     draw_create_diag, referred to from aof.Paint.
ARM Linker: Errors in link, no output generated.

Netsurf doesn’t appear to be able to display this page.

That’s a shame. Actually it turns out to be a lot less useful than I hoped anyway as it only shows changes to things directly under ‘RiscOS’, not the whole tree underneath it. Hopefully something better will be along soon.

The not quite so good news is that today’s, 2019-06-09, Dev ROMs have not built.

Looks like it’s been resolved.

Until a replacement for the CVS Revisions page is done, the best way to see recent changes is to look at https://gitlab.riscosopen.org/groups/RiscOS/-/activity

I see that the list on the home page is now showing each commit only once instead of twice. Baby steps, but at least we can see a little more :)