Re: ./make-dist for unicode branch

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> It's too early to discuss the packaging of Emacs 23, but I'd say
> UnicodeData.txt _should_ be part of the tarball, because otherwise
> users will not be able to regenerate those *.el files if they want
> to change some of the characters' attributes.

For that, they dont' have to regenerate uni-*.el files.
They can change each attribute by `put-char-code-property'.

>> I didn't know about admin/make-tarball.txt.  Now I agree
>> that we don't have to put uni-*.el in CVS tree.  Perhaps, we
>> should add a comment about the requirement of bootstrap at
>> somewhere in make-dist.

> Even better, perhaps make-dist should find some way to check whether a
> bootstrap was done, and refuse to work if it wasn't.

Yes, but, as I wrote before, I think it's not a trivial work.

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Kenichi Handa
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