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From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New build process?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:43:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxg0dpnr.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAC=50j9P2e1Arn75e3XEvyeRhYq+83afWtv_q5vkPCM6P1iSzQ@mail.gmail.com

On Wed, Jul 27 2011, Tim Cross wrote:

>> I don't see a big problem with the file name, but eventually you could
>> merge its content into INSTALL and then remove INSTALL.BZR.
>
> Except i don't believe you need to do this step when installing from a
> tar ball - the configure script is usually provided. Therefore,
> putting the instructions in the same file could confuse those building
> from official non-evelopment releases (I'm assuming thats why they are
> separated into two files now).

Of course, when I say "merge", I mean something like

    "If you install from bzr/git, please read section x.y for
     additional steps."

somewhere in the beginning. Or you keep INSTALL.BZR and refer to it in
INSTALL.


> As you say, it not a big problem and I think its a communication issue
> rather than a technical one and requires (possibly) requires a
> communication fix rather than a technical one.

Indeed. The only issue is, that someone does not take the effort to open
INSTALL.BZR ... ;-)

-- 
           Peter




  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26 18:42 New build process? Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-26 18:47 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-26 20:00   ` David Reitter
2011-07-26 20:16     ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-27  2:58       ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27  3:40         ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27  5:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27  7:58             ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27  8:25               ` Peter Münster
2011-07-27  8:48                 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27  9:43                   ` Peter Münster [this message]
2011-07-27  8:51                 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 10:05                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 10:03               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 13:11                 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 13:31                   ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-27 13:56                     ` David Kastrup
2011-07-28 12:37                       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-07-28 12:46                         ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29 12:36                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-27 14:58                     ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 16:14                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27 16:25                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 20:27                 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-28 10:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 10:15                     ` bug#9106: " Paul Eggert
2011-07-28 16:45                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27  7:51           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27  8:02             ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27  8:07               ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27  8:13                 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27  8:22                   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27  8:31                     ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27  8:54                     ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27  9:01                       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27  9:15                         ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27  9:41                           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-26 20:24     ` David Kastrup
2011-07-26 22:10   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-27 12:15     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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