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

On 10/02/15 10:03, Jose Da Silva wrote:
> On February 10, 2015 12:37:50 AM Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
>> 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.

After looking at this and Ryan's answer, I would say the best option is to not
check in ./configure in Git, but make it part of the generated .tar.gz.

The bandwidth consideration is not really valid for two reasons:

* Distros will build a binary package, which will have the same content whether
  or not they have to generate ./configure themselves.
* Distros may care less about bandwidth than you think: I've tried to stop a
  package depending on 25MB of extra packages I don't need:
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757152
  (Yes, I know this is just one guy, but I'm just saying you shouldn't feel bad
  about 280K of data).

Kind regards,
-- 
Matijs

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