[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] adding 'dist' rule to makefiles

[Måns Rullgård]

"Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 2:45 PM, Ismail D?nmez <ismail at pardus.org.tr> wrote:
>
>> Monday 12 November 2007 Tarihinde 19:08:41 yazm??t?:
>> > So in short, it creates a tarball of your current tree without cruft
>> > (autogenerated, log files, vim backups, etc.) files.
>>
>> use svn export.
>
> Doesn't include auto* generated files (e.g. Makefile.in, configure) which
> _are_ required for most projects. In addition, it doesn't add a version

FFmpeg doesn't use autosh*t, and hence doesn't need a complicate
tarball builder.

> number, doesn't actually tar it but just dumps a dir, and it doesn't provide

FFmpeg doesn't have a version number.

> a test-build on request. (And so on, and so on.)

If it's in SVN, it's should damn well be working.

Please give a single reason relevant to FFmpeg, and we can talk about
it.  If you can't do that, don't waste your time further.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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