Re: Bootstrap with old Python

[Bruno Haible]

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Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Yeah, I wish Tim would build a release tarball so we don't have to do
> > the git submodule thing.

Darshit Shah replied:
> We can work on that soon. Wget2 _is_ technically still alpha software. 
> And with both Tim and me busy with real life, there isn't so much time 
> available for this. Contributions are very welcome :)

It is not hard to do release builds from a continuous integrations. I've
done that for a couple of GNU projects [1][2][3][4][5][6]. What it takes
is essentially
  - Add a "make distcheck" command at the end of your CI job.
  - Add a section "The created tarball" to the README.md of the CI project.
  - Inject a specific version name (possibly the date, possibly a suffix
    "-alpha") into the configure.ac before the build starts.

Bruno

[1] https://gitlab.com/gnu-m4/ci-distcheck
[2] https://gitlab.com/gnu-poke/ci-distcheck
[3] https://gitlab.com/gnu-libunistring/ci-distcheck
[4] https://gitlab.com/gnu-gettext/ci-distcheck
[5] https://gitlab.com/gnu-libffcall/ci-distcheck
[6] https://gitlab.com/gnu-libsigsegv/ci-distcheck