Re: [Plplot-devel] Aspirin for autoheadache

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> As I already discussed privately with Alan, we must _absolutely_ use "make
> dist" for generating the distribution tarball, otherwise there will be
> recurrent problems like that with our releases.  Since Alan is reluctant to
> make the move, I volunteer myself to insure that "make dist" will produce a
> suitable and complete tarball for the 5.2.1 release.

That would be great, Rafael.  If the result  passes the plplot-test.sh test,
then I would be happy.

> Just an aside comment: "make dist" does not work in the current CVS tree
> because nodist_ prefixes are lacking in binding/{python,java}/Makefile.am.
> Attached below is the patch that fixes the problem. This patch is harmless
> when building the package and I am going to cvs commit it, if you do not
> object.

One of my weaknesses is I am probably too oriented to results and not to
design.  But the upside of that is I am open to design changes so long as
the result works.  So yes please go ahead and make any required changes so
that make dist works properly.

> I hope to go from Hell to Paradise with the forthcoming 5.2.1 release!

Sounds good to me!

Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org).

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