Tres Seaver wrote: > > It is often true for *lots* of release management strategies that the > release managers have to do extra work to create a release tarball > (e.g., re-run autogen, etc., or flex / bison, etc.), and that the > released tarball does not include enough information to rebuild itself > (as opposed to re-tgz'ing it).
I have yet encountered a package from autotools where make dist did not work from the pristine sources. Something like autogen.sh is only needed if you modify the autotools "scripts" (configure.ac, Makefile.in/am, etc...). > Nobody but a package maintainer should be making sdists. But my use cases are from a maintainer POV ! In particular, I like checking that sdist actually works in my release scripts (something like make distcheck) - which is exactly my rationale for the above example. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
