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Re: New build process?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: New build process? |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:51:29 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Peter Münster) writes:
> 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.
INSTALL are the instructions for a user installing from a tarball, so
they should likely not be overly complicated. It does not harm to put a
sentence referring to INSTALL.BZR in, but INSTALL.BZR does not actually
need to be in a tarball.
I actually have a project where INSTALL is autogenerated from something
like doc/install.texi, so there is not even an INSTALL file in the
repository. It is, naturally, in the tarballs.
I think we nowadays distribute INSTALL.CVS along in the tarballs, though
at one time we didn't.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: New build process?, (continued)
- Re: New build process?, David Kastrup, 2011/07/26
- Re: New build process?, David Reitter, 2011/07/26
- Re: New build process?, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/26
- Re: New build process?, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/26
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/26
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Peter Münster, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Peter Münster, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Lennart Borgman, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, David Kastrup, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/07/28
- Re: New build process?, David Kastrup, 2011/07/28
- Re: New build process?, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/07/29
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/27