On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 10:38:30PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 1/13/19 10:18 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > On 13/1/19 11:17 pm, Dave Reisner wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 09:15:01PM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > >>> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@archlinux.org> > >>> --- > >> > >> This is really just an alias, right? To match what autotools does? Does > >> anyone actually care about this? Might it be better to just rename the > >> existing target to 'website' instead? > > > > That seems the least redundant approach. > > The existing target is specifically a file target, it's a command to > create output. It only exists as: > > ninja doc/website.tar.gz > > The website target is a toplevel pseudo-target, you can run it directly > from the build tree and it will depend on the tarball being up to date > rather than always rerunning bsdtar. I don't like the idea of turning > the whole thing into one always-rebuilding pseudo-target.
Why bother with this at all, then? Autotools offers website and website.tar.gz, but both are in doc/. This target also is called probably once per release. Aliasing it to some shorter (and sub-par) seems not so useful... I think we should just skip this...