From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:29:17 -0600 Message-ID: <4BA0225D.8030805@gmail.com> References: <4B8147A9.7030504@gmail.com> <87ljemdzxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4B83682D.5010804@gnu.org> <4B9B0211.9070308@gmail.com> <87pr37y6de.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <4B9C4EF6.3010006@gmail.com> <83mxya23fl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268798190 894 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2010 03:56:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jasonr@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 04:56:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NrkMr-0006x0-GQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:56:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NrkMq-0005vG-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nrh8f-000598-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47648 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nrh8d-00058R-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrh8c-0007tM-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-px0-f204.google.com ([209.85.216.204]:39243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nrh8X-0007sd-Os; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:25 -0400 Original-Received: by pxi42 with SMTP id 42so358294pxi.26 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:29:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iOqbwP8SqGjKefI3G08WfMsHN/H4GDnBDInvEcmWSOg=; b=L+hjGGI49Q05efWuVr8aBHwbS+4MdzAL48lvw53QsUEyBXmeQTu7rnRR7E5vdNUTMD Q/4Tcabl2vxOV/pk/Qn3NHkIm6rWT12dy+VDaYe3di/0QcRVjrGIc8hdIkCk21whdqoE GsdpVo1EsxBiU20Jec5wCzzn+/sE+hauykn/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oh4sPLuwZdT0+Amh/UPY4n0SASCqEFLZLSqrLewAjqsKYyeSFukfrhLD/KlQcyH3M3 7vv3NhgKd+wTHBmxYHX+1VzYw37jKSa5sslmezg3K/Y1yVduHhM+FjUsQAg24ieqw60v TpEj0KIRgnk1rERDI0tiTsSeIh1gAkJJHsPP0= Original-Received: by 10.141.5.9 with SMTP id h9mr176426rvi.386.1268785763307; Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] (67-40-152-150.hlrn.qwest.net [67.40.152.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm1751825pzk.13.2010.03.16.17.29.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:29:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <83mxya23fl.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:56:20 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122079 Archived-At: On 3/14/2010 11:55 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:50:30 -0700 >> From: Christoph >> Cc: Stefan Monnier, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> - added an option "--distfiles [path to file, for example libXpm.dll]" >> to configure.bat. >> > That's gratuitous, I think: modern Windows shells are powerful enough > to let you write a FOR loop looking for libXpm.dll along PATH. > This assumes that libXpm.dll is actually somwhere on the PATH, which it might or might not be (and I might not put it on the path). I think the command line option for configure.bat is way more flexible for one's individual build environment, plus who knows, maybe I want to also package libSvg.dll or libWhatever.dll. Now I can do this without having to change the code. >> Also, is there any way to get the version number from a file contained >> in the source tar ball? Then make dist would always output a zip file >> properly named according to the current version. >> > Again, one of the variants of the FOR command should do the trick. > Could you elaborate on this solution? Thanks! Christoph PS: As for the "powerful Windows shells"...not before Windows 7 (or Vista?) with Powershell did Windows ever have a powerful shell... ;)