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Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically
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Stefano Lattarini |
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Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:00:09 +0100 |
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On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> >> > * Makefile.am (git-dist): The developer might have already tested
> >>
> >> "might" Hah.
> >>
> > "The developers shall test extensively before finally creating
> > the release tarball" would sound better? :-)
>
> I wasn't advocating a change (it's only the ChangeLog after all).
> I was merely acknowledging the humor in what you wrote.
> Anyone who is making a release should have run "make distcheck"
> *many* times, definitely including at least one run after any
> final change. Saying that it "might have been done" sounded
> tongue-in-cheek.
>
I will make the change anyway, unless you object; the new wording
is more normative (as it should be) while still tongue-in-cheek.
> In general I'm for that one extra "make distcheck" run, as a
> safety net, as long as it doesn't take too long, but automake's
> test suite takes long enough
>
(At least one hour and a half on my desktop, BTW)
> that one doesn't easily run it an extra, usually-unnecessary time.
>
Right.
Regards,
Stefano
- [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically,
Stefano Lattarini <=
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/10
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/11
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/11
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/11
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/11
- Re: [PATCH] release: don't run "make distcheck" automatically, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/11