Re: AS patch 15

Sasha_Vasko@osca.state.mo.us
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:38:44 -0600



>On Tue, 3 Nov 1998 Sasha_Vasko@osca.state.mo.us wrote:

>> Now, here are my suggestions about 1.5beta6:
>> - we need to remove configure from autoconf dir
>> ( that was actually done by my patch 14, we just need to make sure that
it
>> will not get there again :)
>> - we might want to remove precompiled config files, leaving only *.in
files
>> in afterstep  dir
>
>These can be handled by makeasclean.  I highly recommend that whoever
>makes the distribution run "make indent; makeasclean" before releasing.
>Also, checking for files with no newline at the end might be good - I
>don't know if there are any right now.
>
>> - we need to create dir tools, and copy all the scripts for old config
to
>> new config coversions, and
>>  perhaps some other (makeaspatch for example) in there. Right now they
are
>> scattered all around
>>  distro. ( BTW there is script in /src/Pager dir to convert old pager
>> config to new one :)
>
>That sounds fine to me.  Make sure that the documentation points to the
>right place, though.  doc/code/Patch mentions the location of makeaspatch
>as doc/code/makeaspatch.
>
>> - ToDo dir needs some cleanup.
>
>Do I hear a volunteer? :)

Sure, I can do that. I just thought that whoever will be doing beta6
packaging should do this.
>From our last conversation I assumed that that person will be WavePoet :)
If he tells me to do so, I can do some cleanup and send a patch .

>Ethan Fischer

Sasha