From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: Dependencies and packaging (Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:29:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7vtxld30f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7va9n52zjc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20130606213124.GB12924@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra , Greg Troxel , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Thomas Rast , =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Scharfe?= , Michael Haggerty , Matthieu Moy , =?UTF-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= , Ramsay Jones , Erik Faye-Lund , Johannes Sixt , Johannes Schindelin To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 07 21:29:43 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ul2M2-0007St-Uy for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:29:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752999Ab3FGT3j (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:29:39 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f171.google.com ([209.85.217.171]:32840 "EHLO mail-lb0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751608Ab3FGT3i (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:29:38 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f171.google.com with SMTP id 13so1346405lba.2 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:29:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=DwqK3mQHc5NqSO6J3DperPRb6mjg3/DZtHlYLW45fwM=; b=vQzf29ecJjWBSlYOBnZtSW6Yu1mLUQls0ulG2Y1weogP8yaTaM/BKOfUs+ClVuoJwC BVjAbTxTtVoziTfu4Rw+pStoJ3uzIcVGJBLGueQDLTsrz8Nk2wMSqGBotX/QERRWQkJ3 4xQ9qsZHBx7C0eh67jA95WIfdU5R+0oA/TBLpJmP18kzU+ZTncHCnWu9t+IyK6h2v20G 8wbD5js7WD4TESpaISWKFc/HOqP3e5xL/ki8s/xvCb+fYmwqcjd1P91SNF0z5Q9zn0Tv k/w0wn6mXF3Nl7DZ0d+QEk68lQHOpH/6O4fnqv2MMMDYIqbE6CjxgOPbdkGmVSJEbE3w kvcA== X-Received: by 10.152.22.73 with SMTP id b9mr75867laf.36.1370633377193; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.59.202 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 12:29:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130606213124.GB12924@google.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> Git is probably the _last_ thing >> to be complaining about when it comes to packaging. > > It would be nice if contrib/ files supported the usual "make; make > install; make clean" targets. That's missing functionality that does > matter to at least one packager. > > It would be nice if the dependencies associated to each piece of > functionality or makefile flag were documented more clearly. > Currently when e.g. features of gitweb gain dependencies I don't > notice until the testsuite fails. Here's a good example how to do that: https://github.com/felipec/git/blob/fc/master/contrib/remote-helpers/Makefile -- Felipe Contreras