[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/5] Add an optional 'is-continuous-snapshot' tag to OS entries

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Mon Nov 25 14:01:16 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:52:54PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> Applications can use this to determine if an OS is just a snapshot and
>> not an actual released product yet. For example, gnome-continuous images
>> for development snapshots of GNOME and nightly build ISOs of Fedora etc.
>
> Hmm, hang on, this is getting confusing now.
>
> My understanding was that the GNOME continuous images were officially
> released products, not development pre-release snapshots.

I think it was the other way around. :)

* pre-release examples: Fedora X alpha/beta and GNOME 3.9.91/2 ISOs.
* continuous snapshot examples: Fedora nightly ISOs and GNOME continuous images.

So yeah, they are different and now we have already code/api that
differentiates both.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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