[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] adding 'dist' rule to makefiles

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 07:24:38PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> 
> On Nov 12, 2007 6:35 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Heh, the last time around you claimed that your auto* version was
> > shorter than ours (quick reminder: it is not).
> >
> > I'm all for automating things, but I think all of the advantages you
> > described are easier to achieve by a small shell script sitting outside
> > the FFmpeg source tree...
> 
> Poke accepted, but here's one thing: if several ffmpeg "users", in this case
> not people writing media applications or such, but people trying to package
> ffmpeg, would like to see a make dist (and that seems to be the case), would
> it be allowed upstream (of course if it's clean etc.)?

I'd have to see it, but right now it feels very much like a auto*
workaround...

Diego