Re: Next pretest, and branching plans

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:50:30 -0700
> From: Christoph <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> - added an option "--distfiles [path to file, for example libXpm.dll]" 
> to configure.bat.

That's gratuitous, I think: modern Windows shells are powerful enough
to let you write a FOR loop looking for libXpm.dll along PATH.

> Also, is there any way to get the version number from a file contained 
> in the source tar ball? Then make dist would always output a zip file 
> properly named according to the current version.

Again, one of the variants of the FOR command should do the trick.