On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:51:40AM +0000, Philip Martin wrote: > Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> writes: > > > The 1.9.0-alpha2 release artifacts are now available for testing/signing. > > Is it worth stripping tools/buildbot from the tarball?
+1 I don't think anyone compiling from a tarball needs these files. Index: tools/dist/dist.sh =================================================================== --- tools/dist/dist.sh (revision 1578108) +++ tools/dist/dist.sh (working copy) @@ -228,6 +228,12 @@ ver_major=`echo $VERSION | cut -d '.' -f 1` ver_minor=`echo $VERSION | cut -d '.' -f 2` ver_patch=`echo $VERSION | cut -d '.' -f 3` +# Remove tools/dev/buildbot from our distribution tarball. +# End users cannot really do anything with these files. +if [ "$ver_major" -eq "1" -a "$ver_minor" -ge "9" ]; then + rm -rf "$DISTPATH/tools/buildbot" +fi + # Remove contrib/ from our distribution tarball. Some of it is of # unknown license, and usefulness. # (See http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-04/0166.shtml for discussion.)
