Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs commit

Sascha Schumann wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 02:33:04PM -0700, Jim Winstead wrote: > > You mean like './makedist php snapshot'? That does require everything > > to be checked into CVS, however. > > That's why I wrote the short additional target for the makefile. > I'm currently working on DBA to make it useable in the PHP4 > environment. A full working make dist saves you much time > packaging a test tarball. > > And using "makedist" doesn't only mean that all your sources > need to be checked into CVS, it's unusable for offline testing > (not everyone has a permanent Internet connection). > > I don't see why we shouldn't use it normally - makedist is > outdated (would have to be adopted to libzend) while the dist > target already performs the task. The advantage of makedist is that it forces you to have the source tagged in the repository. This is important for doing real releases. It also pulls down the generated HTML docs via rsync, although I wouldn't be sad to see this discontinued with PHP4. This could certainly get folded into the makefile rules for the dist target. I'm just pointing out the difference. Jim