Hi Jim,
I noticed that gzip distributes .zip archive releases, but your
announcement messages do not mention them [1]. Is there any reason not
to?
If not, I can push the attached patch. It is a simple one line change.
Collin
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00007.html
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Message-ID: <84c568dc9533319bad5227686976ceebf942651b.1752984002.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com>
From: Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:50:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] announce-gen: Add support for dist-zip.
* build-aux/announce-gen (@archive_suffixes): Add zip.
---
ChangeLog | 3 +++
build-aux/announce-gen | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e35772e8ba..9caa4d4eec 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2025-07-19 Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com>
+ announce-gen: Add support for dist-zip.
+ * build-aux/announce-gen (@archive_suffixes): Add zip.
+
readme-release: Remove link to Hydra autobuilder.
* top/README-release: Remove link to Hydra autobuilder since the recipes
have not been updated in years.
diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen
index b0acad9035..a585ce1f19 100755
--- a/build-aux/announce-gen
+++ b/build-aux/announce-gen
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
eval 'exec perl -wSx "$0" "$@"'
if 0;
-my $VERSION = '2025-06-10 02:43'; # UTC
+my $VERSION = '2025-07-20 03:45'; # UTC
# The definition above must lie within the first 8 lines in order
# for the Emacs time-stamp write hook (at end) to update it.
# If you change this file with Emacs, please let the write hook
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ use POSIX qw(strftime);
(my $ME = $0) =~ s|.*/||;
my %valid_release_types = map {$_ => 1} qw (alpha beta stable);
-my @archive_suffixes = qw (tar.gz tar.bz2 tar.lz tar.lzma tar.xz);
+my @archive_suffixes = qw (tar.gz tar.bz2 tar.lz tar.lzma tar.xz zip);
my $srcdir = '.';
sub usage ($)
--
2.50.1
