Re: [fontforge-users] Announcing LibSpiro - version libspiro_beta.0.3.20150131

On February 10, 2015 12:37:50 AM Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> On 09/02/15 21:00, Jose Da Silva wrote:
> > I take it that most problems are resolved now, except for adding C99
> > and providing a ./configure or rewording INSTALL?
> > 
> > Did the configure provided work okay? I'm uncertain what to expect
> > from a newer OS building a configure to run for an older OS on
> > another platform.
> > 
> > Will providing a ./configure branch be okay? vs adding in trunk/HEAD?
> 
> Isn't it just much simpler to check in ./configure in master as opposed
> to maintaining a separate branch? Autoconf is supposed to create
> cross-platform configure scripts.

Good question that needs pondering.

One reason I left it like this is - Bandwidth costs money:
head.tar.gz == 80K in size

with ./configure and other files.
branch.tar.gz == 360K in size

Distros need to pay for bandwidth used. Head uses much fewer bytes.

Seeing that Debian, Fedora, ArchLinux, FreeBSD seem okay to build their 
latest and greatest spinoffs using the reduced file set, and they haven't 
converted it themselves either, it may be best to ask them preference vs 
bouncing back-n-forth.

Second reason, at the moment, I'm leaning towards the smaller file set for 
clarity of what really needs changes, and create a new branch for each 
version.

The edits that went into Jon's fixes for the older machines makes this a 
really tempting point to create a version 0.4 (barely a week after 0.3) so 
that it's usable by a larger audience of machines/users.

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