[netperf-talk] looking for a cron job to generate daily and weekly distributtion tars from SVN TOT

[Rick Jones]

Folks -

While I suspect I could cobble something together without _too_ much trouble, 
I'm going to ask if someone out there could concoct a cron job or jobs which 
would generate daily and/or weekly "make dists" from the netperf SVN TOT.  Extra 
points for one which is triggered by an svn commit hook.

The reason:  It has been suggested that things like Makefile.in files should be 
removed from the repository.  I don't have too strong a feeling about that, but 
it would mean that anyone wanting to grab bits from the TOT would need to have 
autotools on their system.  I'd rather not require that for someone just wanting 
to try the TOT, hence the desire for a commit-triggered "make dist" to make the 
gz bz2 and zip files.  Folks wanting to try the latest bits could do so by 
grabbing a tar/zip rather than needing an svn client and autotools.

Ideally, it would only "fire" if there was a commit since the last "firing" and 
it would fire no more often than once every 24 hours.  Only say the last 7 
"dailies" would be kept.

happy benchmarking

rick jones