On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Loic Dachary wrote:

> That would be great, indeed. Updating EXTRA_DIST entries or FILES list
> is a pain anyway, using a single source is less annoying.

Indeed. One source is the only way to go.

> In the same spirit, make distcheck do make sure that sources build
> properly from the generated tarbal and this is definitely usefull: you're
> sure the tarbal shipped compiles.

Yes. Well if we get 'make dist' to work, we should have 'make distcheck'
working as well.

> For my own packages I recommend that contributions are only commited to
> the CVS tree when 'make distcheck' runs properly.

That's not a bad policy.

> Would you like this to work or do you see complications or is it for
> some reason against your policy ?

I would like it to work. I can't see any conflicts with my previously stated
"policy".

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  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/