[Mesa-dev] Finishing make distcheck

[Ian Romanick]

On 12/07/2014 06:57 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> I've finished fixing up make distcheck.
> 
>     git://people.freedesktop.org/~mattst88/mesa make-dist
> 
> I've seen some (sporadic?) failures of the glcpp/tests/glcpp-test. I
> think it's because it's trying to write out files into the
> distribution directory, which isn't allowed. I'll try to track that
> down.
> 
> Other than that, I don't know of any problems. I've diffed the lists
> of files in git vs the distribution tarball and it looks as expected.
> 
> It's 79 small (or mechanical, like alphabetizing) patches that aren't
> interesting to read, so I'm not going to send them to the list. I do
> hope Emil will have a little time to give it a once-over.
> 
> The only question I really have is what archive formats we want to
> ship? As the branch is now, it generates tar.gz (11 MiB) and tar.xz
> (6.5 MiB). I think bzip2 is pretty useless these days (larger than xz
> and takes longer to decompress). Do we still want zip?

I think we still want zip for Windows.  As far as xz vs bz2 goes, what
do our other distro partners want?  I guess Gentoo wants xz. :)

> With distcheck working, we should probably start using release.sh from
> git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular to generate the
> annouce emails and do the uploads like the X.Org projects do. I expect
> I can make that modification unless someone else wants to.

That sounds good to me, but I don't do releases any more.  At least
having the announce e-mails look the same as the rest of X.Org may have
some benefit.

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