Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Sorry, but I don't see why a decent build script would require the
> source to be packaged in a specific way. Yes, it would be simpler if
> they all use the same convention, but you cannot depend on that.
A descent designed code tries not to duplicate stuff unnescessarily
Hi Suresh,
Yes, your analyse is right on the spot. Perhaps I was a bit unclear.
As for the current solution, after uncompress/untar I do a move of
dir to match the tarball (mv vim71 vim-7.1).
The downside is that there has to be a special case for vim, no
matter what logic is used to match tarba
Hello,
This is just a small request which will make it easier
for source build environments to use vim tarballs.
Most opensource packages are named like "-.tar.gz",
or bz2 for that matter. After uncompress/untar, the top directory
is similar to tarball without extensions "-".
So in a Makefile t