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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving OpenRC to a meson-based build
From:       James Le Cuirot <chewi () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2017-02-01 16:55:38
Message-ID: 20170201165538.07a2be92 () red ! yakaraplc ! local
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 10:46:12 -0600
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:55:17PM +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:39:34 -0600
> > William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > I thought about autotools. I'm not really fond of its syntax, and
> > > I've been told that, to use autotools correctly, I would need to
> > > start generating manual release tarballs again because I would
> > > need to put the autotools generated cruft in them.  
> > 
> > Not all that hard, to be honest. Autotools adds a "make dist"
> > target and then you just upload that tarball to GitHub by adding a
> > new release.  
> 
> Is that functionality available through the github API, or do you have
> to go to the web site?

The API has it covered.

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#create-a-release
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#upload-a-release-asset

> Also, another concern I would have is the tarballs are not
> reproducible that way.

True though I see it has been discussed not all that long ago. There
may even be a solution somewhere but I didn't find one in a hurry.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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