Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> > * Makefile.am (git-dist): The developer might have already tested >> >> "might" Hah. >> > "The developers shall test extensively before finally creating > the release tarball" would sound better? :-)
I wasn't advocating a change (it's only the ChangeLog after all). I was merely acknowledging the humor in what you wrote. Anyone who is making a release should have run "make distcheck" *many* times, definitely including at least one run after any final change. Saying that it "might have been done" sounded tongue-in-cheek. In general I'm for that one extra "make distcheck" run, as a safety net, as long as it doesn't take too long, but automake's test suite takes long enough that one doesn't easily run it an extra, usually-unnecessary time.
