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Re: [Beaver-devel] Strip comments on "make dist"
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Leslie Polzer |
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Re: [Beaver-devel] Strip comments on "make dist" |
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Fri, 6 Jun 2003 22:52:05 +0200 |
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:15:10 -0400
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Well, I would be averse to stripping the GPL stuff. That needs to be
> in, on legal grounds, eh?
Do you know for sure? I don't. Maybe a "see COPYING in dist" will suffice.
> As for the rest, I'm skeptical of how much space you'd save (seeing as
> it's text and compressed). I'd be interested in seeing the results.
I'm going to test it.
> But... Even as a user (albeit a user that programs), I often will open
> up a tarball and browse the source if I'm interested in how something
> got done or whatever. It is thus handy if the comments are there.
>
> I'd feel better if we at least offered a tarball that had the comments.
Agreed.
Leslie
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