2011/8/29 Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>:
> On Mo, 2011-08-29 at 16:33 +0200, Krzesimir Nowak wrote:
>> 2011/8/26 Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>:
>> > The rationale must be that "make dist" is intended to produce the same
>> > result, always, no matter what the environment or configure options are.
>> > Just guessing, though.
>> >
>>
>> This sounds sensible. Going this path I'd say that there are two solutions:
>> 1. Distribute README.html - that would need README.html to be always
>> generated and that in fact - a syncevo's dependency on rst2html, that
>> is - configure would end with an error if there is no rst2html.
>> 2. Don't distribute README.html - then it would be generated if
>> rst2html existed on system.
>>
>> Above solutions clearly contradict your conclusion about README.html
>> being distributed if it can be build.
>
> "intention" instead of "conclusion" is a better word here ;-)
>
> The goal was to have the file around when using source .tar.gz from
> syncevolution.org, because those are built in an environment where we
> ensure that rst2html is around.
>
> Let's go for option 2. README.packagers must be extended with a hint to
> packagers that they now (SyncEvolution >= 1.3) should make rst2html a
> build requirement.
>

Done.

I also added a warnings system like described in [1]. It may be useful.

Again, I'm attaching a complete patch made against
dbus-server-reorganization branch.

[1] 
http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2011/01/18/avoiding-use-of-deprecated-api/

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> Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
>
> The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
> I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
> represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
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>
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