[postgis-devel] 2.2.2 Release (?)

[Greg Troxel]

Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:48:48AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>> My impression is that separating this wouldn't be that hard.   The big
>> issue is separating "checkout as modified but not committed" from
>> "what's in the working dir".   But even if it could easily make a
>> distfile from trunk or a branch, vs a tag, that would help a lot.
>
> The only reason why that script relies on the VCS is to avoid putting
> in the tarball any generated file, basically.
>
> Automake solves that by requiring explicit mention of each and every
> file that needs to be in the distribution (in Makefile.am).
>
> Do you think we could use a manually-edited MANIFEST file for that ?

We could, or we could use svn ls on the branch.  Once we have a
manifest, I'd want to have 'make distcheck', but this is slowly
reinventing automake which isn't a good strategy....

But in thinking about this, the real benefit is to be able to make a
distfile from trunk, or the head of some branch, to check it during the
runup to a release.  So if the script could make a distfile from trunk
or a branch, with read-only VCS access, that would get 85% of the value
with perhaps only 10% of the work.
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