Re: [Monotone-devel] examples directory

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:42:46 -0700, Nathaniel Smith 
<address@hidden> said:

njs> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:11:32PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker 
wrote:
njs> > In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:04:41 +0200 (CEST), 
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> said:
njs> >
njs> > richard> Oh, for the love of (/&#%¤(/&%/)I(!!!!  Forgot to add the files 
to
njs> > richard> EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am.  OK, correcting.
njs> >
njs> > Speaking of that, does anyone know why the files in contrib/ are being
njs> > specified exactly instead of using $(wildcard $(srcdir)/contrib/*),
njs> > just as is done with the debian/ files, the examples/ files (from now
njs> > on) and so on?
njs>
njs> General bias towards using explicit things, so as not to end up
njs> distributing source tarballs with editor backups and the like?

The alternative is to have a workspace specifically to make debian
builds in.  That or make sure to clean up first (which
dpkg-buildpackage does, incidently).

Cheers,
Richard

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