Collin Funk wrote: > > 2) It is actually useful for the maintainer to know what value is stored in > > .tarball-version. When the maintainer is making a release, he certainly > > does not want to have an unexpected value in this important place. > > Therefore > > here it is very useful — more useful than elsewhere — to see the full > > command. > > Well, the file contents should be the same as the version suffix in the > tarball, no? Automake uses "$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)" for the distdir
Yes, but as a maintainer making a release, I would not want to wait 15 minutes (for "make && make distcheck" to complete) in order to see that the $(VERSION) does not match my expectations. I would want to see that right away. A non-silent 'echo' command guarantees this. Bruno
