On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 13:14, Bruce Korb wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 02:25, Bruce Korb wrote: > > > Akim Demaille wrote: > > > > > > > > Would that be accepted? For some of my projects, I don't need nor > > > > want the .gz, I just want the .bz2. > > > > > > If you are going to parameterize it at all, then parameterize it > > > completely. e.g. --compressor=bzip2 [ --compression-suffix=bz2 ] > > > except there would be a table of defaults for the suffix: > > > > I like this idea. One tweak: > > pluralise the command: > > --compressors=bzip2,gzip[,...] > > Meaning you would produce more than one tarball? > Such an option would need something more explicit. > e.g. "make bzip2-dist gzip-dist ..."
Why? I am suggesting that make dist create one tarball for each compressor it has been told about. It seems to me that if you want individual targets, they *could* be created, but that the most common option will be to want a set number of tarballs, and to build them all at one time. This means: build dist tree compress with compressor 1 compress with compressor 2 clean dist tree as opposed to the current (or last I checked closely) build dist tree compress with gz clean dist tree build dist tree compress with bz2 clean dist tree which is less efficient than it could be. Rob
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