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
next prev parent 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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