[m-dev.] Source distribution file name

[Paul Bone]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:09:14PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:58:32PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:36:53PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> Previously we had a bunch of tarballs corresponding to the source distribution,
> >> >>
> >> >>     mercury-compiler-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >> >>     mercury-extras-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >> >>     mercury-tests-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >> >>
> >> >> As these have all now been rolled into a single tar ball, I propose
> >> >> that we change
> >> >> the name to
> >> >>
> >> >>    mercury-srcdist-<VERSION>.tar.gz
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > mercury-<version>.tar.gz makes sense to me.
> >>
> >> That's often the name of the installation directory though.
> >>
> >> > We don't provide any tarballs that _arn't_ the source dist.
> >>
> >> We have in the past (and may again in the future).
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> > My remaining thing is that name-version.tar.gz is traditional.  It's what
> > sources for most other projects do.  (This is a pretty weak argument on it's
> > own.)  Sticking to what people expect may help new users.
> 
> Yes, but Mercury is a bit different here because the "source distribution" isn't
> simply just the source code, it's all the pre-generated .c files as well.
> My main rationale for including "srcdist" in the name is that our documentation
> talks about the "source distribution" quite a bit.  IMO having something in the
> filename that identifies the tarball as that of the source
> distribution is helpful.
> 

That's a very good reason to name it such.  Go ahead.

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Paul Bone
http://www.bone.id.au