Re: release preperations

On Wed, Mar 06, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:35:02PM +0100, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> > "man dillo" shows
> > 
> >        In order to use the hyphenation feature, pattern files from CTAN  need
> >        to  be installed to ${prefix}/lib/dillo/hyphenation/.  This can be done
> >        with the script install-hyphenation.  Call it with  ISO-639-1 language
> >        codes as arguments, or without arguments to get more help.
> > 
> > "${prefix}" should be replaced here.
> 
> Yes. Does someone know how this is best done with automake?

Move doc/dillo.1 to doc/dillo.1.in and add this to doc/Makefile.am:

diff -r f37ab8cb8930 doc/Makefile.am
--- a/doc/Makefile.am   Tue Mar 05 19:47:09 2013 +0100
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am   Wed Mar 06 22:24:33 2013 +0100
@@ -39,3 +39,6 @@
         Selection.txt \
         Dpid.txt \
         README
+
+dillo.1:
+       sed 's%.{prefix}%${prefix}%g' < dillo.1.in > dillo.1

This replaces ${prefix} by the actual value. I could not get the "$"
into the sed expression (therefore the "."), so this is not perfect.

> > > Also we would need to install the install-hyphenation script, so
> > > that it becomes part of binary packages.
> > 
> > There would also some changes neccessary, since the script searches
> > "Makefile".
> > 
> > This is an aspect I have not yet thought about: whether the script is
> > part of the installation process (as now) or the installation itself
> > (as you suggest).
> 
> If we install it it will probabely end up in binary packages and be
> available for end users.
> If we don't install it, we rely on packagers to deal with the
> problem (e.g. to create a separate hyphenation pattern package).
> 
> > > If we do that it would have to be renamed to
> > > dillo-install-hyphenation or something like that.
> > > Does this sound ok?

I'll try to modify the script, so it can be installed to
${prefix}/bin. In any case, this is certainly useful.
 
> [...] 
> > OTOH, if someone installs dillo from the tarball, and does not notice
> > that she should download pattern files. Since hyphenation is inactive,
> > when there is no pattern file installed, this feature will be
> > invisible.
> > 
> > That's why I thought to put it into the Makefile, so he sees the
> > notice when he calls "make install".  That's what I meant with my
> > question.
> 
> We can of course also add the notice to make install, that should
> not harm anyone.

Although I must admit that this approach only works for one message.

Sebastian