Re: [RFC] DISTLIST and gendistlist.sh

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 14:58 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > 
> > Robert has already noted on IRC to me that the file DISTLIST shouldn't
> > be on SVN
> 
> I think I said that its auto-generation should be integrated with autogen.sh,
> so that it's not forgotten.  I don't have an opinion on having or not having
> it on SVN (as long as we have to keep the other autogenerated files, it isn't
> very useful to remove it).

I haven't bothered to look it up again on the logs so it was probable
that that I remembered it wrong :)

DISTLIST is only used for `make dist' i.e. making the distribution
tarball and nothing else.
I just found out today that `make dist' does create DISTLIST if it
doesn't exist.
Whereas the other files generated by ./autogen.sh are needed to compile
the SVN which I think more people do then generating a distribution
tarball.

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 :)