Re: [eLyXer-users] Excluding the build directory from the tarball?

[Alex Fernandez]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Sven Hoexter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> would it be possible to excluded the 'build' directory from the release
> tarball?

Sure, no problem. I have just committed a version of your patch that
removes the build directory from the .tar.gz, and also from the .zip.

> I noticed this a already a few month back when this directory first appeared
> but back then I've been using subversion for the packaging and the
> svn-buildpackage tool had a handy switch to override and ignore the problem.
> Today I switched to git and now I can't override it that easily.
> I'll try to hack something around that issue for the 0.36 release but I guess
> it would be 'better' to simply not include the build directory in the
> (release) tarball.

Git rocks, truth be told. It is an amazing tool.

> Attached is a patch for the 'make' script that will hopefully exclude it from
> the tarball (though I'm a bit unsure what the directory looks like you're
> building from).

The build directory is just for Python style installation: it contains
build/lib/elyxer.py. Nothing important :D

I would not like 0.36 to propagate to testing since it has an annoying
bug with unordered sections -- just look at the main page:
  http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/
and see how the sections are <h?> because of a silly bug. But in
unstable more people can try it out and find any remaining bugs. We
have more than 20 users now! With the improved TOC generation code I
expect it should reach a wider audience.

Thanks,

Alex.