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Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.16.1.46-3d8e7 missing hint in the tarball


From: Giuseppe Scrivano
Subject: Re: [Bug-wget] wget-1.16.1.46-3d8e7 missing hint in the tarball
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:38:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

Darshit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> Not really. Because README.checkout contains information that would be
> confusing to the average user who downloads a tarball. README.checkout
> should contain specific information that is required by those who
> clone the git repositories. It needs to enumerate the additional steps
> like `git submodule init; ./bootstrap', etc. And the additional
> libraries that the system requires. I think the two files need to be
> separate.
>
> But yes, the part about running the test suite belongs to README and
> not README.checkout

in principle, in practice the only differences that I can think of are
git that is needed for fetching gnulib and flex for generating css.c.
The same autotools (plus anything needed) could be used by anyone who
wants to regenerate the Makefile.in files or the configure script for
whatever reason.

But if you think that keeping this information in README.checkout is
clearer to users, then let's keep it there.

Regards,
Giuseppe



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