[Live-demo] A folder for beta software

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Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio escribió:
> --- On Wed, 2/3/10, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com> wrote:
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>> From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] A folder for beta software
>> To: "Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio" <juan_lucas_dr at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "live-demo at lists.osgeo.org" <live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>, "Hamish" <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 3:56 AM
>> Some answers/history below:
>>
>> In prior releases, we didn't have a place to store beta
>> software, so we 
>> are taking your lead regarding how we should set this up.
>>
>> On 3/02/2010 10:30 AM, Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> FYI, I have noticed three remarkable things regarding
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>> install_kosmo_2beta.sh :
>>     
>>> - it's not called from main.sh
>>>     
>>>       
>> Because it is beta software.
>>     
>>> - it prompts the user for input (read USER_NAME)
>>> - it's a beta version but adds an icon to the desktop
>>>     
>>>       
>> Probably because it is is a copy of the stable version of
>> the script?
>>
>>     
>>> I'm currently preparing a simple way to automatically
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>> add start icons to a submenu called 'Geospatial Beta
>> software'.
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>>>     
>>>       
>> Great.
>>     
>>> Regards,
>>> Juan Lucas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
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>
> Hello, I have uploaded these changes :
>
> - removed the reference to ugvsigmobile.sh from main.sh because it's a beta package.
>
> - added a new script ./install_beta_and_submenu.sh (currently not invoked) that deals with beta packages. This script could be called from main.sh, for example inside the enumeration just before ./install_desktop.sh
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> - Comments in ./install_beta_and_submenu.sh explain the simple steps to have a beta package installed and added to the new submenu. I have created a new folder ./beta_software to contain beta software scripts (now only the one for ugvsigmobile) and other files. I can see there were no folders there, I hope this is not a problem for the creation process.
>
> So someone should do this:
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> - check that ./install_beta_and_submenu.sh makes sense
>
> - add a call to ./install_beta_and_submenu.sh from the right place
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> - for each new beta package, follow the instructions in ./install_beta_and_submenu.sh
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>
> I have tested this locally on a Xubuntu 9.10 live CD and worked fine.
>
>
> Regards,
> Juan Lucas
>
>
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Hi to all.

Don't worry about install_kosmo_2beta.sh, I'm updating the stable 
version from 1.2.1 to 2.0RC1 and the Kosmo 2.0beta version is going to 
be removed.

Regards,

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