Re: Release tarballs are full of garbage

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 14:20, you wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2004 18:22 schrieb Mike Richardson:
> > I'm aware that there are a number of problems with the admin* files.
> > However, I've decided to drop the autotools files for 2.3.x in favour of
> > Scons,
>
> That might indeed be a good idea, but it doesn't help those people who are
> trying to use Rekall today.

Mea culpa. I have to admit that the 2.2.3 tarball is a mess. I'm working 
through your list and should have a new one soon (begining next week I guess)

>
> > > In any case, the 2.2.3 release tarball is really broken.  I hope you
> > > find the time to build a better one soon.  Thanks.
> >
> > Some specific information would help, I presume "in any case" means that
> > there is something else??
>
> The distribution tarball contains temporary files and files from your local
> build that will conflict with those that someone on a system other than
> yours would produce, or at least confuse a lot.  (Well, possibly they will
> simply be overwritten, but then we have a case of a self-destructing source
> tree, which is extremely ugly.)  I suggest that you delete the files I
> pointed out in my previous mail and build a new release.  At least run
> "make distclean" before you make a distribution.

Mike