Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 12/08/2012 23:20, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: The API to specify the formats of distribution tarballs has been changed completely, in a BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE way. Instead of using the various 'dist-*' automake options, the developer is now expected to specify the default formats of its

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 08/21/2012 06:24 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 12/08/2012 23:20, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: The API to specify the formats of distribution tarballs has been changed completely, in a BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE way. Instead of using the various 'dist-*' automake options, the developer is now

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 08/21/2012 06:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 21/08/2012 18:42, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: On 08/21/2012 06:24 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 12/08/2012 23:20, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: Nice, but I'm not sure why this couldn't have a backwards-compatible replacement. Because

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: The API to specify the formats of distribution tarballs has been changed completely, in a BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE way. Instead of using the various 'dist-*' automake options, the developer is now expected to specify the default formats of its

Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Note that my set of patches doesn't yet offer any public API for the addition of new distribution format; but the new form of the codebase should at least make that very easy to add (it's mostly a matter of changing the name of few so far

[Automake-NG] [PATCH 6/7] [ng] dist: new API to specify formats of distribution tarballs

2012-08-12 Thread Stefano Lattarini
The API to specify the formats of distribution tarballs has been changed completely, in a BACKWARD-INCOMPATIBLE way. Instead of using the various 'dist-*' automake options, the developer is now expected to specify the default formats of its distribution tarballs with the special variable