On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> > * Makefile.am (git-dist): The developer might have already tested > >> > >> "might" Hah. > >> > > "The developers shall test extensively before finally creating > > the release tarball" would sound better? :-) > > I wasn't advocating a change (it's only the ChangeLog after all). > I was merely acknowledging the humor in what you wrote. > Anyone who is making a release should have run "make distcheck" > *many* times, definitely including at least one run after any > final change. Saying that it "might have been done" sounded > tongue-in-cheek. > I will make the change anyway, unless you object; the new wording is more normative (as it should be) while still tongue-in-cheek.
> In general I'm for that one extra "make distcheck" run, as a > safety net, as long as it doesn't take too long, but automake's > test suite takes long enough > (At least one hour and a half on my desktop, BTW) > that one doesn't easily run it an extra, usually-unnecessary time. > Right. Regards, Stefano
