Re: Roundup of GNUPLOT conversion issues

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 01.11.2017 um 14:34 schrieb Eric S. Raymond:
> Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:

>> 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?
> 
The change to automake happened very soon after the directory structure 
change, on 1999-03-28.  'prepare' exists since 2001-06-09T19:15:55.  The 
drop of auto-generated files was on 2003-01-08 (as per state 'dead' in 
the Attic/,v files, and a commit mail in in the gnuplot-cvs archives).

The distance between fresh working copies and tarballs really only 
jumped up at the 2003-01-08 step, though.