Re: [ext2resize] [Ext2resize-cvs] ext2resize/src Makefile.am, 1.11, 1.12

[Coywolf Qi H. <co...@gm...>]

2006/6/12, Petter Reinholdtsen <pe...@hu...>:
> I'm moving the discussion to ext2resize-devel@, as it seem a better
> place to discuss the development.
>
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > Log Message:
> > Include all the source files (also the unused ones) in the source tarball.
>
> [Coywolf Qi Hunt]
> > Why do that? We don't need ext2_mkfs.c and tst.c.
>
> Because I believe the source tarball should reflect the content of the
> upstream CVS, and thus be a reliably and distributed backup on the CVS
> content.  If we do not need them, why are they not removed from CVS?
> As long as they are present in CVS, I believe they should be in the
> source tarball as well, to make sure the tarball is complete and can
> be used to recreate the CVS content.

I think a tarball is for users. They don't need to see things like tst
(for test) which is for developers.
-- 
Coywolf Qi Hunt