Re: Dependencies and packaging (Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/)

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2013, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s0ko1T96J7u3xdrZgxnvG_JwizLyWqFuginujggDCQD_w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130606213124.GB12924@google.com>

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>>                                      Git is probably the _last_ thing
>> to be complaining about when it comes to packaging.
>
> It would be nice if contrib/ files supported the usual "make; make
> install; make clean" targets.  That's missing functionality that does
> matter to at least one packager.
>
> It would be nice if the dependencies associated to each piece of
> functionality or makefile flag were documented more clearly.
> Currently when e.g. features of gitweb gain dependencies I don't
> notice until the testsuite fails.

Here's a good example how to do that: https://github.com/felipec/git/blob/fc/master/contrib/remote-helpers/Makefile

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Felipe Contreras