qmake and make dist

2013-09-25 Thread Daniel Pocock
upstream is using qmake for PostBooks qmake doesn't appear to provide a make dist facility, at least not the way the project is currently configured. Consequently, upstream tarballs tend to be snapshots of the developer workspace, in one case, even including things like submodules, .gitmodules

Re: qmake and make dist

2013-09-25 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-09-25, Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au wrote: qmake doesn't appear to provide a make dist facility, at least not the way the project is currently configured. Unless for autotools projects where you might want to store pregenerated files in the tarball, I've never seen the reason for

Re: qmake and make dist

2013-09-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:06:04PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: For all my qmake and cmake based projects, neither that has a make dist, I've asked my VCS for a tarball of the tag and blessed that one as 'the release'. +1 Anecdotally, one of my upstreams has a broken tarball which is a git

Re: qmake and make dist

2013-09-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: Unless for autotools projects where you might want to store pregenerated files in the tarball, I've never seen the reason for make dist. For several of my (admittedly autotools) upstreams I add git2cl in the dist-hook and now that I have

Re: qmake and make dist

2013-09-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/25/2013 09:00 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Is there any convenient way that upstream can generate a clean tarball with qmake? In general, is it sufficient to work with a github-generated tarball for the tag on a qmake project? Not tested - and I havent used qmake for some longish time, but