From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New build process? Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:43:52 +0200 Organization: Micropit Message-ID: <87mxg0dpnr.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> References: <20110726184220.GA6390@acm.acm> <87bowg6fre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4E2F2084.7070001@gmail.com> <87sjpsdtaa.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311759859 14402 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 09:44:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:44:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 11:44:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm0ew-0003s2-Lm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:44:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43739 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm0ew-0005AK-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm0et-0005A0-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm0es-0004of-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm0es-0004oW-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm0eq-0003q1-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from arennes-651-1-327-205.w2-12.abo.wanadoo.fr ([2.12.206.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:44:04 +0200 Original-Received: from pmlists by arennes-651-1-327-205.w2-12.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:44:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arennes-651-1-327-205.w2-12.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jnw10aQzMxvoaqUzLytM8PbhXvE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142368 Archived-At: 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