[maemo-developers] Autobuilder and build-dependencies from extras-devel

[From: Henrik Hedberg]

gary liquid wrote:

> if you add NEW calls or references or headers into the library since you 
> last updated, it will FAIL because your app will be trying to load in 
> the older versions.

    I believe many of us have had the same problems.

> it was something I encountered and pondered whether we could make the 
> autobuilder "cheat" and look in the "queued for updating to 
> extras-devel" list so that it found the others.

    +1

> but at the end of the day, I just uploaded and got the library through, 
> waited an hour, then sent the app.

    That makes unnecessary delay between the moment your application is 
ready to be released and the final moment when it can be actually 
announced to the world. What to do in between? Drink a lot of coffee? In 
the middle of the night perhaps?

1. Upload your library into the extras assistant
2. Wait unspecified time (usually at least ten minutes)
3. See if the build succeeded. If not, go to 1.
4. Wait unspecified time (one hour perhaps) until the library is 
actually in the extras-devel.
5. Upload your application into the extras assistant.
6. Wait unspecified time (usually at least ten minutes)
7. See if the build succeeded. If not, go to 5.
8. Wait unspecified time (one hour perhaps) until the application is 
actually in the extras-devel.
9. Promote the library and the application to the extras.
10. Wait unspecified time (one hour perhaps) until the library and the 
application is actually in the extras.
11. Announce the new version of your application to users.

How many hours is 1 -> 10?

    Is there any possibility to make this time shorter?

    BR,

    Henrik

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