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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:46:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: Using autoconf/automake/libtool
From: Greg Stein <gstein@gmail.com>
To: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
Cc: "William A. Rowe Jr." <wmrowe@gmail.com>, dev@apr.apache.org
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Let me reiterate my earlier point, since this is straying from the main point:

A simple dist.sh script should be sufficient. We do not need automake
to take the place of a simple shell script.

serf's dist.sh is almost precisely what APR could use: it produces a
.bz2 and a .zip file. No complicated options or other processing
(unlike svn's release.py and dist.sh pair which manages the *process*
rather than just producing tarballs).

-g

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 16:38, Greg Stein <gstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:17, Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm> wrote:
>> On 16 Mar 2012, at 9:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>>> This was asked and answered before, this project rejects automake.
>>>>
>>>> Can you cite when this took place?
>>>
>>> Sure I could, but you have the same email archives I do.
>>
>> And I can't find the discussion you're referring to in those archives. Like I said, can you cite please?
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/apr-dev/200012.mbox/%3cPine.LNX.4.30.0012152349240.2652-100000@rossini.schumann.cx%3e
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/apr-dev/200103.mbox/%3c20010310060247.X27539@lyra.org%3e
>
> Plus lots of other references of people saying "no way on automake".
> None of those comments are explained, beyond relying on people's
> personal experience (and hatred) of automake.
>
> -g