[Replies inline] On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:20:05 +0100 Tino Didriksen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 March 2018 at 14:48, Anthony J. Bentley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'll add: GitHub allows uploading files associated with tagged > > releases. Please be sure to always generate a tarball with "make > > dist" and upload it to GitHub after you've tagged it. > > > > [...] > > So, don't just "make dist" and upload that tarball - actually test > that you can build from the tarball. I've had to fix up several > makefiles because new files were not added to the dist target. This is what the autotools make target distcheck is for, it makes a tarball, unpacks, builds (with VPATH and writeonly srcdir), checks and tests all sorts of stuff. It can be extra-annoying with some picky checks but if you pass them you should have quite releasable package. -- Doktor Tommi A Pirinen, Computational Linguist, <https://flammie.github.io/purplemonkeydishwasher/>, Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora <http://hzsk.de>. CLARIN-D Entwickler. President of ACL SIGUR SIG for Uralic languages <http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur/>. I tend to follow inline-posting style in desktop e-mail messages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
