On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:12:31 -0400 Nick Sabalausky <seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:30:16 +0100 > Russel Winder <rus...@winder.org.uk> wrote: > > > > The start point has to be a tarball of the source. If this is not > > part of the distribution release then we need to agree an officially > > acceptable process for creating a release source tarball. > > > > My tool will do this. > Speaking of which: Are there any special requirements I should be aware of? In particular, it would be very helpful to have a canonical list of anything/everything that should be different from what you get by taking one of the current release ZIPs we have today and extracting it. Also does ".tar.gz" vs ".tar.bz2" matter? I understand that the latter (if I spelled it right) is newer and better compression, but any reason that it might *need* to be one or the other?