Re: no-dist-gzip

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

 Akim> Gzip is really a pain in my case.  I'm suggesting this first stab.
 Akim> Possible debates:

 Akim> 1. a warning when no-dist-gzip but no option to enable another format?
 Akim> 2. if so, where?

handle_dist?

 Akim> 3. a better message at the end of distcheck?  It no longer gives the
 Akim> name of an archive.

Someone once complained that project.tar.bz2 was not mentioned
in that banner (when using dist-bzip2).

I think it would be a useful to let Automake output a variable
with the list of archives constructed by dist.  Maybe something
like

 DIST_ARCHIVES = $(distdir).tar.gz $(distdir).tar.bz2

But this is another story.

[...]

 Akim> (distcheck): Depend upon distdir, not dist.
 Akim> Run make dist at the end.

I'm feeling a bit uneasy with this.  Basically, the change is
that you pack what has been checked, instead of checking what
has been packed.  Not that this makes a very important
difference, but I'm disturbed to think that the package I
distribute was never unpacked.  (I know this is what happens
with tar.bz2 packages presently, only tar.gz are checked, yet
I feel like checking one archive is better than nothing.)


By the way, do you know why all these `dist-*' targets
are conditionally defined?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz