Re: Upcoming galois release

Thank you for your patience Paul.

Gerardo

Il giorno gio 27 ott 2022 alle ore 04:36 Paul Wise <[email protected]> ha scritto:
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> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 18:30 +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
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> > Yes, probably. It seems you look at programs from the perspective of a
> > big project like Debian, as components in a larger whole.
>
> Its more like every software project has relationships (depending on or
> depended on by or both) with other projects, regardless of whether they
> are packaged in a distro or not. Every project is part of an ecosystem
> of software, no person is an island and no software project sits alone
> with no other software nearby in some way. I prefer to acknowledge
> those relationships and keep them visible rather than hiding them
> behind embedded code copies or generated files in the VCS and tarballs.
>
> > Agreed, but there may be exceptions. For example, the configure script
> > is normally shipped within the tarball although it's generated from
> > configure.ac and thus it's "not source". That's to allow people to
> > build the program without installing the autotools suite. As I see it,
> > the argument for shipping html files follows a similar logic.
>
> I agree there may be exceptions, but I think most of them are from a
> bygone era and are no longer needed. The autotools approach especially
> isn't necessary in a world where it is possible to install autotools on
> pretty much every platform. At minimum, the autotools cruft should be
> distributed in a separate tarball to the source, although that isn't
> yet possible with current automake. The only acceptable exception I can
> think of would be if it is prohibitively costly resource wise to do the
> build (say build longer than 24h), but even then I would still
> distribute the build result separately to the source.
>
> > To me, making a separate doc package seems an exaggeration for a
> > simple program like this.
>
> It needn't be a separate doc package, just the prebuilt package.
>
> Anyways, sorry for side-tracking your thread and thanks for discussing.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
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