Mentioning Emacs' AUTHORS file in admin/make-tarball.txt.

Mentioning Emacs' AUTHORS file in admin/make-tarball.txt.

[Lute Kamstra]

It just occurred to me that admin/make-tarball.txt doesn't mention
Emacs' AUTHORS file.  As I understand it, this file needs to be
regenerated before a release.  What about the following entry?

3.  Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET
    lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save
    the *Authors* buffer).  This may require fixing syntactically
    incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand.


  Lute.

Re: Mentioning Emacs' AUTHORS file in admin/make-tarball.txt.

[Lute Kamstra]

Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:

> It just occurred to me that admin/make-tarball.txt doesn't mention
> Emacs' AUTHORS file.  As I understand it, this file needs to be
> regenerated before a release.  What about the following entry?
>
> 3.  Regenerate Emacs' AUTHORS file (M-x load-file RET
>     lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el RET, then M-x authors RET, then save
>     the *Authors* buffer).  This may require fixing syntactically
>     incorrect ChangeLog entries beforehand.

Hmm, I noticed that Miles added an arch tag to the AUTHORS file as
well.  If the file gets regenerated, this tag will disappear.  Is it
useful to have an arch tagline in automatically generated files?  If
so, we should probably hack lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el to create the
tag.

  Lute.

Re: Mentioning Emacs' AUTHORS file in admin/make-tarball.txt.

[Miles Bader]

Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:
> Hmm, I noticed that Miles added an arch tag to the AUTHORS file as
> well.  If the file gets regenerated, this tag will disappear.  Is it
> useful to have an arch tagline in automatically generated files?  If
> so, we should probably hack lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el to create the
> tag.

I may have done so by mistake -- in general I didn't add taglines to
generated files.  In the cause of AUTHORS, I suppose it _is_ possible to
have the generator add the tagline back, but probably it's cleanest to
just remove it.

-Miles
-- 
Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, 
 beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?

Re: Mentioning Emacs' AUTHORS file in admin/make-tarball.txt.

[Lute Kamstra]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Lute Kamstra <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl> writes:
>> Hmm, I noticed that Miles added an arch tag to the AUTHORS file as
>> well.  If the file gets regenerated, this tag will disappear.  Is it
>> useful to have an arch tagline in automatically generated files?  If
>> so, we should probably hack lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el to create the
>> tag.
>
> I may have done so by mistake -- in general I didn't add taglines to
> generated files.  In the cause of AUTHORS, I suppose it _is_ possible to
> have the generator add the tagline back, but probably it's cleanest to
> just remove it.

Ok, let's just do nothing and the next time the AUTHORS file is
regenerated, the tagline will disappear.

  Lute.