[Mesa-dev] Finishing make distcheck

[Emil Velikov]

On 08/12/14 02:57, 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
You're a star Matt !

I was hoping that you'll fix the "breakage" mapi but going the whole
nine yards is greatly appreciated.

My ideas on the topic as a whole are:
 * Fix "make distcheck".

 * Use a versioning scheme consistent with the rest of X.org.
There was some objections that it's too complex/might break someone's
workflow, yet no-one has some forward with examples. Fwiw only OpenSUSE
and Mageia occasionally use RC tarballs, so it seems that no-one ever
will bother saying a word.

 * Don't ship anything but a tar.xz tarball.
Linux, *BSD and WindowsXP+ have/ship programs that support the format
for more than 5 years.

 * Use release.sh to tidy up the process.


I'll take a look at the branch in a second.

Cheers,
Emil