On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 at 18:37:08 +0200, Christophe wrote:
> ----- Carlos R. Mafra <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 at 12:05:42 +0200, Christophe wrote:
> > > ----- Josip Deanovic <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > >
> > > > Further more, one cannot read the list of prerequisites as the file
> > > > INSTALL-WMAKER gets built only after you already have some of them
> > > > met e.g. autoconf, automake, possibly more.
> > >
> > > Yes, that is a known limit of the procedure in place. Actually this
> > > file is more meant for people compiling from the official package,
> > > which do not have these problems. The goal is for people compiling from
> > > Git to find this information online on the Website, which is an ongoing
> > > task.
> >
> > Sorry, this makes no sense.
> >
> > The INSTALL-WMAKER file should be a plain text for people to read without
> > any hassle. It should contain information to help people install
> > wmaker. Its existence cannot depend on things that the file is meant to
> > warn about in the first place.
> >
> > Can we get the file back like it was?
>
> It is not exactly "like it was", if you see what I mean ;-)
>
> Please note that when you change the version number for the next
> release, 'make' will regenerate the file for you with updated version
> information that you will probably want to include in the same
> version-change commit...
Oh, no. Definitely no. I won't include the version change in the commit,
because this is not supposed to happen.
Now I get things like this:
[mafra@mac:wmaker.git]$ git checkout wmaker-0.95.6
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by
checkout:
INSTALL-WMAKER
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
Aborting
[mafra@mac:wmaker.git]$ git diff
diff --git a/INSTALL-WMAKER b/INSTALL-WMAKER
index 64e07e4..f16c131 100644
--- a/INSTALL-WMAKER
+++ b/INSTALL-WMAKER
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2015 The Window Maker Team.
along with this program, see file COPYING for details.
- Published by The Window Maker team on 20 June 2015.
+ Published by The Window Maker team on 23 June 2015.
and this is just annoying.
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