Re: compiling in build?

On 12/13/2011 11:42 PM, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Il 11/12/2011 23:04, Lorenzo Bettini ha scritto:
>> Ciao Federico
>>
>> usually, shadow builds are the recommended way to compile sources, so I
>> didn't mention it in the documentation, but you're right about it :)
>> please file a ticket at
>>
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=src-highlite
>>
>
> I can only search. How can I file a ticket? (I'm logged in)
> I'm feeling stupid, but really I can't understand how to do it.
>

click 'bugs' (on the top menu) and then you should see 'submit' (or 'new')

> Also, I always wonder - it happens in other free software projects - why
> filing a ticket for anything, even such simple tasks.
>

because it helps developers to get organized; emails tend to get lost in 
the mailbox.  With tracking systems you can be much more productive 
(especially if you use wonderful tools like Mylyn in Eclipse :)

>> in particular, if you've already built it in the same directory, and you
>> want to provider an improved .gitignore, please do so.
>
> Mmmh, I think that using the build/ directory is the easier way.
> I've made a try (see files attached), but I'm afraid that some lines are
> not easy to maintain (.texidoc and .h files).
>
> I'm not a developer... no awareness at all! :-)

No problem, I'll take a look :)

thanks
	Lorenzo

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