From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Mon Feb 08 1999 - 16:11:36 EST
On Feb 8, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 8, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@www.transvirtual.com> wrote:
>> > Update of /home/cvspublic/kaffe/developers
>> These shouldn't appear in the ChangeLog unless they're going to be
>> distributed. In this case, you have to add them to EXTRA_DIST.
> If we hadn't switched to the automake imposed system of having to
> distinguish between a "developer" and a "distribution" tree, and stuck
> instead to the simple, traditional and established way in which sources
> under Unix are distributed, we wouldn't have to answer that question.
Yep, we wouldn't have a choice.
> To answer it though: I don't care.
But you have made half a choice, you should choose for one or another.
Referring to a file in a distributed ChangeLog means the file should
be part of the distribution too. If you don't mean to make them part
of the distribution, we can maintain a separate ChangeLog in the
developers directory, or just not maintain it at all.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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