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Re: New build process?


From: Peter Münster
Subject: Re: New build process?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:25:33 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, Jul 27 2011, Tim Cross wrote:

> Still, my main pint is I don't think we should get too carried away
> trying to automate all of this. It is a common requirement and while
> some may have been caught out, it is something you should expect when
> working this close to the development layer. Efforts were made to
> communicate the changes on this list (by you IIRC Eli) and there is
> information in the INSTALL.BZR file. My objection with trying to
> automate or eliminate this simple step is that the solution can often
> be worse than the problem and adds just another point of potential
> failure in a step which is already simple and straight-forward (once
> you know about it!).

+1


> However, if we can rename the file or make
> another copy of the instructions under a name which the majority feel
> is more likely to be noticed, great - all for that.

I don't see a big problem with the file name, but eventually you could
merge its content into INSTALL and then remove INSTALL.BZR.

-- 
           Peter




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