Re: [RFC] DISTLIST and gendistlist.sh

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 00:54 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 15:13 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> 
> > I don't have almost no opion at all how this should be changed.
> > For me, the first solution to this problem that appears is just removing
> > DISTLIST but that doestn't mean of course that it's the best :)
> 
> 
> I tend now more to Robert's suggestion, so here's a little patch for
> autogen.sh
> I think the DISTLIST file could a bit helpful to remind
> that ./gendistlist.sh might sometimes needs an update.

Maybe we could take an approach based on the version control system?
The distributed files are those under version control plus generated
distributed files (if any) minus maintainer-only files.  The file lists
for inclusion and exclusion would be short and would rarely need to be
updated.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin