Re: tarball and unpacked top directory name syncronization

2007-08-28 Fir de Conversatie Per Hallsmark
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

Re: tarball and unpacked top directory name syncronization

2007-08-12 Fir de Conversatie Per Hallsmark
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

tarball and unpacked top directory name syncronization

2007-08-11 Fir de Conversatie Per Hallsmark
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