Re: no-dist-gzip

[Akim Demaille]

It seems that the message I sent last week never arrived :(  Bad
sign...  EPITA is striking back?

>>> "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?

Thanks.

 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 addressed this.

 > 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.

I did that, but I did not have in mind you wanted that guy to be
public.  I don't see the point actually.  What will you do if the user
defines it?

 > [...]

 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.)

I addressed this too.

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

Good point.  What about this then?

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