From: Felipe Contreras Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:29:37 GMT Subject: Re: Dependencies and packaging (Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130606213124.GB12924@google.com> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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 -- Felipe Contreras