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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is there a specific file with the version number in it that I would modify, or do you just mean the file names?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rob Groner<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 09, 2015 9:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> Rob Groner<br><b>Cc:</b> nut-upsdev@lists.alioth.debian.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nut-upsdev] New sub-driver submission process timeframe?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Mar 9, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Rob Groner <<a href="mailto:rgroner@RTD.com">rgroner@RTD.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I </span></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>don’t have any problem with pointing customers to a branch they can clone via git and compile.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I know this sounds pedantic, but while the snapshots correspond to specific branches and commits in git, they are simpler for end users to build than the git branches, since they include the ./configure script and a few other pre-built (text) files.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Case in point: with nothing extra installed (aside from user conveniences like bash and sudo), I was able to build a basic version of NUT from a snapshot .tar.gz on a newly-installed FreeBSD box, while building a new snapshot from the git master branch required autoconf, automake, libtool, asciidoc, and its host of dependencies.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you do repackage 2.7.2, please add something to the version number (e.g. 2.7.2-RTD) to indicate that it is patched.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Charles Lepple<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>clepple@gmail<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>