Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >
> Note that my set of patches doesn't yet offer any public API for
> the addition of new distribution format; but the new form of the
> codebase should at least make that very easy to add (it's mostly
> a matter of changing the name of few so far internal-only
> variables, and adding the proper documentation).

What I would expect is that the developer can include a makefile 
fragment which adds a target expressed in a well-documented way, and 
likely by cloning/modifying an already-working target. This target is 
then brought in by being referenced.

> > For example, my project also wants to be able to produce 'srpm'
> > format as well as a '7z' format.
> That could be a nice test bed for the API, if you want to become
> an early Automake-NG adopter ;-)

While I can see GraphicsMagick moving to Automake-NG, it could only do 
that in a fork (in Mercurial or maybe git mirror) until Automake-NG is 
stable and properly released.

Bob
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