Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH] [ng] maintainer-mode: remove it altogether

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> On 08/09/2012 08:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > > >
> > > That's why the files generated by maintainer tools should be distributed.
> > > Once they are, and the distribution tarball gets not botched somehow, the
> > > rules requiring such maintainer tools should not be executed on the use
> > > machine anyway, independently from the presence or absence of maintainer
> > > mode.
> >
> > There are some broken (but popular) filesystems
> Just out of curiosity: which ones?

Windows FAT.

There are packages which don't use 'make dist' to release their 
package (they use tar or zip) so timestamps may not be coherent. 
This is evil but likely not related to maintainer-mode since 
maintainers of such projects would not be likely to be aware of it.

I suppose if Automake-NG removes --enable-maintainer-mode, then it is 
pretty easy to add one back.

Bob
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