Re: [Amforth] download.zip strangeness

[Erich W. <ew....@na...>]

Hello Mark,

Mark Roth writes:

> Because the zip is the Release package and the SVN is the Dev package I
> would guess. The end user that isn't going to do anything more than grab
> the zip, add the AVR stuff, quick scan the readme, go to the
> APPL directory, make a copy of the template, hit make install (hopefully
> after reading what needs to be changed to get the correct hex files) and
> never do anything else but upload extra FRTs as needed.
That may well be. I said to Martin: look in doc/Makefile.
Answer: there is no doc/Makefile :-(

> To build the docs you need a lot (a real lot) of extra packages. The real
> question is, "How are the zips created?"
Yes, agreed, and probably part of the bigger question:
How (in detail) did Matthias roll up an official release?
Well, I'll find out.

Cheers,
Erich

> All the best,
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:50 PM Erich Wälde <ew....@na...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Martin B. found out that the content of the download.zip files
>> is  different from the content of the svn checkout. For example
>> ./doc/Makefile is not present. However, the zip file has more
>> files alltogether:
>>
>>
>> $ find releases/6.8 -type f | wc -l
>> 2389
>>
>> $ find ./amforth-6.8 -type f | wc -l # from download-6.8.zip
>> 2537
>>
>> So the content is different somehow.
>>
>> Anyone have any insight/ideas?
>>
>> This seems to be an item for the upcoming AmForth weekend,
>> /me thinks ...
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Erich
>>
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