Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:08:17 PDT Dima Kogan wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:
> 
> > It sounds reasonable to me.
> >
> > This seems to be surprisingly tricky. Previous attempts did not work out.
> > See commits:
> > 	9d0f148d  	d543154a
> 
> OK, I'll look in a bit. In the meantime, can you tell me how we build
> snapshots? Do we just 'tar cz --exclude .git ...' or is there a script
> of some sort?

That's a large part of the problem.

We clearly can build a stand-alone tarball if we have control over it.
That's what I do to make a release package.

Unfortunately so far as I know we don't have control over the snapshot
building process on the SourceForge page.
It looks like they just dump the current content of the repository into a tarball.

I could try sending a support request to the SourceForge ops, but I'm
not all that hopeful about getting a useful response.

	Ethan