[Geany] small usability suggestion
Lee Underwood
leeu at xxxxx
Thu Jul 19 18:34:15 UTC 2007
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:33:45 -0400 "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
| Hi Lee,
|
| "SVN" is short for "Subversion", the name of the version control
| software that the developers use to keep track of source code changes
| to Geany. The latest "release" of Geany is a version of Geany from a
| short while back that was deemed stable enough to release. To run the
| cutting-edge version, you need to get the source code directly from
| svn and build it yourself.
|
| Every time Enrico or Nick make a change to Geany, lots of folks go and
| grab those most recent changes (via svn), and rebuild Geany on their
| machines to try out those changes.
|
| Some brief instructions for this are at
| http://geany.uvena.de/Download/SVN . See also the README and INSTALL
| files in the source code distribution.
|
| ---John
| _______________________________________________
Thanks, John. Now I understand. So when I see someone talking about features in the current SVN, I can know that, once it is deemed stable, the updated version will be "released", right?
Lee
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