Re: [Beaver-devel] Strip comments on "make dist"

[Leslie Polzer]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:15:10 -0400
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:

> Well, I would be averse to stripping the GPL stuff.  That needs to be 
> in, on legal grounds, eh?
Do you know for sure? I don't. Maybe a "see COPYING in dist" will suffice.

> As for the rest, I'm skeptical of how much space you'd save (seeing as 
> it's text and compressed).  I'd be interested in seeing the results.
I'm going to test it.

> But...  Even as a user (albeit a user that programs), I often will open 
> up a tarball and browse the source if I'm interested in how something 
> got done or whatever.  It is thus handy if the comments are there.
> 
> I'd feel better if we at least offered a tarball that had the comments.
Agreed.


Leslie

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