Re: Roundup of GNUPLOT conversion issues

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> Am 29.10.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Daniel J Sebald:
> 
> >I don't think the exact tarballs are there.  I sort of have a recollection
> >of whenever a release was to be made, the tarball required some extra
> >effort on someone's part.
> 
> Not back then they didn't.  The tarballs can be generated directly from a
> fresh working copy, just by running
> 
> 	./configure && make dist
> 
> But all that effectively does is make a version-named copy of the source
> tree without "CVS" directories and .cvsignore files, and tarball that.
> 
> Any actual differences between that and the official release tarball are
> down to either
> 
> a) auto-tools of different versions being re-run at 'make' time, or
> b) last-minute fixes applied directly to the tarball, manually
> 
> Only when we switched to automake, dropped all generated files from the
> repository, and started using the 'prepare' script instead, did tarball
> contents start to be really different from fresh working copies of their
> corresponding CVS tags.

Can you identify when that switchover was?
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