Re: Next pretest, and branching plans

[Jason Rumney]

Christoph <address@hidden> writes:

> One problem is that calling makedist.bat means a dependency on the
> trunk, since it is not available in the source tarball. Can we add the
> /admin/nt directory and its contents to the source tarball? Or move
> the files to ../nt? Then, the 'make dist' target would be able to
> create a zip from just the tarball, without having to have the trunk
> available. But since the directory structure is the same, running
> make dist' would also work in the trunk itself to easily create binary
> snapshots of the trunk.

Moving the files to the top level nt subdirectory would be OK.

> Also, is there any way to get the version number from a file contained
> in the source tar ball? Then make dist would always output a zip file
> properly named according to the current version.

The lib-src makefile contains the version number on Windows.  You could
update admin/admin.el if you want to move this to nt/makefile.