From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out] Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:14:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1iv8i6i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ftu430u6.fsf@petton.fr> <12614070-f1bc-9e26-7f38-5dded990a65a@cs.ucla.edu> <4745c966-4531-f946-8eca-de996c3958d2@cs.ucla.edu> <7zfttsgahx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="21876"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 23 17:26:35 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLEq-0000zR-NE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLEN-0004yd-NR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:18:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLAz-0002TU-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLAy-0005yT-L2; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:14:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3596 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gmLAy-0003FV-6k; Wed, 23 Jan 2019 11:14:52 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:58:49 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232640 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:58:49 -0800 > Cc: Emacs Devel > > On 1/16/19 2:30 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > I see zero practical advantages to a switch to a "distribute everything" > > approach (which Emacs has never done, and nor when I check do eg tar, > > texinfo, coreutils); unless it will drastically simplify make-dist and > > avoid problems like the one fixed in 021f34b. If it does then I am all > > for it. :) > > OK, proposed make-dist patch attached. This patch drastically simplifies > the list of files in make-dist that needs to be maintained manually, by > relying on Git to keep track of files under version control. This should > help avoid problems like the one you mentioned. I think you forgot a few files, like PDF refcards etc., which are produced by the build, but included in the tarball.