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["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andreas,

> I worked on the installer and it can install the framework. 
> It still needs integration into the build script (target and 
> staging directory) and work needs to be done for integrating 
> the builds for .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0.

I think we can call it finished. There are a lot of initial 
things like this which will never be finished if we wait for
each feature to be added. In fact the Nant script is in that
state now. I plan to clean it up and get it done.

I have some questions about the installer, which could lead
to change:

1. Should it really be putting the framework in the GAC,
even as an option? I notice that you cannot manually remove
an assembly from the GAC if it's marked as required by an
installed application.

2. Do we need it at all? I know, I know, I am the one who
listed it. :-) But now I wonder: Should we have an msi for
the framework, another for the gui, etc. Or should we just
have a single installer that combines them all, in a separate
project on Launchpad? That would leave the individual
projects to be xcopy-deployed only.

What do you think? If you want to initiate some sort of 
discussion of this, nunit-discuss would be a good place,
since both items impact users as well as developers.

> I'm working on the blueprint for the console-runner. BTW, 
> what is the priority of the console-runner? What does series 
> mean? Is this always trunk for us? What's the milestone 
> target for the console-runner?

Series | Branch | Trunk are concepts on Launchpad that we
can map in varius ways. I used the most common approach:

Series is one main release, with it's pre-releases and 
bug fix releases after the fact.

You get one branch per series, so it's basically the same
except that you can have branches that are not part of 
a series. I think those will be mostly owned by individuals.

Assigning a blueprint to a series and milestone is a function
of a release manager. We can do it in advance or at the last
minute.  

Everything we are so far doing is trunk, because I decided
not to have any other series until we are closer to a true
release of 3.0. Then we will have a 3.0 series. At first
I had a 2.9 series, but talking with Paul Hummer about it
I realized that it has no particular purpose. I plan to
do releases of whatever is ready at each milestone in
addition to the key items already noted. So far, I only
made assignments to two milestones, 2.9.1 and 2.9.2. You
can call the first NUnit 2.5 Reborn and the second NUnit
With NUnitLite.

Remember that you know as much as I do about Launchpad,
so if you see a better way let me know.

Regarding console-runner, I'm pretty sure it should be
a separate project, which would have it's own series,
branches, milestones and releases. What do you think?

> I'll start drafting the blueprint for the Linux Makefile. If 
> I understand correctly, the goal is that "configure", "make", 
> "make install" will work, isn't it?

Yes. And maybe two of them...

1. That accompanies the source code actually builds first,
using NAnt to do it.

2. Another that accompanies binary distros would probably
just copy them to the right place.

This is just my guess. We need to do what Linux people
expect to have done - whatever that is. :-)

Charlie
 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > It would be helpful to let us know the status of the work items you 
> > have signed up for that has not been updated in Launchpad. It's 
> > understod that some things take a while to get done, but it's a 
> > problem if we don't know they are actually being worked on. 
> It could 
> > be that some things need to be reassigned.
> > 
> > So let us know either via launchpad or on the list.
> > 
> > Charlie
> > 
> > 
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