[m-rev.] trivial diff: don't include autoconf cache in source distribution

Jonathan Morgan jonmmorgan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 22:46:33 AEDT 2007


On 1/10/07, Simon Taylor <staylr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10-Jan-2007, Ben Schmidt <b.schmidt at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > I wonder whether all the CVS folders should be tarred up as well? I
> > wouldn't have thought so. An option such as --exclude=CVS to tar would
> > probably be a better way to deal with it than deleting the folders,
> > though, I expect. Not that it's really a problem, though, I suppose.
>
> I've found the CVS directories in the source distribution to be useful
> when installing over dialup because you then don't have to download
> several more megabytes from the CVS repository to do development work.

Sorry to bring up this discussion again, but I have tried this in the
past and discovered it problematic.  The problem is that the source
distribution has directory /home/mercury1/repository, whereas outside
users need to go through the pserver.  Obviously this can be fixed,
but it will not work straight out of the box.

I would suggest that CVS directories not be included in the released
versions (e.g. 0.13, 0.13.1) as there is often not much point in
updating from these releases, which are at least several months off
the trunk.  They may be more useful in the source edition for the
ROTDs, though I don't use them that way.

Jon
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