Awesome, thanks!

So now if we port this to zeromq4-x and zeromq4-1, we'll just have to
push the tags corresponding to the last commit of each previous release,
right? It might make moving all downloadable to Github a much easier
process.

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 11:45 +0200, Kevin Sapper wrote:
> On libzmq master it's now possible to let travis automatically deploy
> artifacts. The deployment is triggered if a new tag is created. I've
> created a test release and tag[1] to see if it is working properly. The
> files that are available under this release have been deploy by travis.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases/tag/v4.0.2-test
> 
> 2016-05-04 11:34 GMT+02:00 Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 05:46 +0200, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just for a curiosity - the content of packaging/debian collide with
> > > standard Debian packaging? It is intentionally there to not clash, so
> > maybe
> > > solve this problem. Either by not generating them, either by defying
> > safer
> > > location.
> >
> > It's not a problem with the location, it's just that the Debian source
> > package will end up having packaging stuff duplicated and with different
> > content: 2 changelogs, 2 control files, etc.
> >
> > But again this is exactly why make dist exists - having that generated
> > packaging code in the repository is useful, no need to remove it.
> >
> > > On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 18:26 +0200, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> > > > One note, 'make dist' always fails the first few times because files
> > > > are missing. Keep this in mind. The git tarball has the great
> > > > advantage of never failing. (And since it makes tarballs look like git
> > > > clones it gives the same experience to all developers.)
> > > >
> > > > I'd vote for killing 'make dist'. It also makes us dependent on
> > autotools.
> > >
> > > Uhm I just tried fresh clones of both libzmq and zeromq4-1,
> > > and ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make dist works just fine.
> > > It was broken a while ago, but I fixed it, and now the CI tests that it
> > > works.
> > >
> > > Besides, IMHO there are 2 big problems with just tarring up the git
> > > repo.
> > >
> > > First of all, it doesn't remove the dependency, it just moves it down to
> > > the user. Which means we'll start getting bug reports that are due to
> > > the different versions of autotools or cmake used (and there are a lot!
> > > ).
> > >
> > > But most importantly, the tarball will ship stuff that shouldn't be
> > > shipped, which is a huge problem for distribution packagers. For
> > > example, in CZMQ, the packaging bit would be shipped. That would break
> > > many things in the package build process, and the distro maintainer (ie:
> > > me :-) ) would have to take the shipped tarball and sanitize it, nuking
> > > all extraneous bits. This should not be necessary! That's exactly the
> > > reason "make dist" exists.
> > >
> > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Pieter Hintjens <p...@imatix.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Luca Boccassi <
> > luca.bocca...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Is any of the API I marked as draft actually ready for release?
> > > > >
> > > > > Even so, leave it 'draft' until it's actually being used. Changing
> > > > > minds is expensive otherwise.
> > > > >
> > > > >> So should we use branches instead for bugfix releases?
> > > > >
> > > > > All fixes to master. In the extraordinary case where a bugfix release
> > > > > cannot be made from master, a branch could work. We never needed this
> > > > > in e.g. CZMQ. I doubt we'd need it in libzmq. I absolutely recommend
> > > > > against branches unless it's the only option. (And I think we've
> > > > > designed ourselves space to never need that option.)
> > > > >
> > > > >> Isn't it possible to do the github release thing with the result of
> > > > >> "make dist"? I think I've read somewhere that you can use the
> > result of
> > > > >> CI builds.
> > > > >
> > > > > Seems Kevin has solved this, almost :)
> > > > >
> > > > > -Pieter
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