[Kde-extra-gear] Git and the future of scripts to create extragear tarballs

[Ian Monroe]

2010/7/30 José Manuel Santamaría Lema <panfaust at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on an extragear project and until now, with svn, I have been using
> the 'create_tarball.rb' script[1] to generate my tarballs. If I'm right, this
> script has various limitations; it doesn't support creating tarbarlls from
> branches (you're forced to package everything from trunk) and it doesn't support
> git.
>
> Since some day we will move to git and also I guess I'll do a branch my project
> some day, I'm thinking how I will create tarballs.
>
> IIRC I asked some time ago in IRC to Konversation guys how they where generating
> tarballs and someone pointed me this:
> https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~apachelogger/+junk/release-script-refactor
>
> I'm considering to start using that script (it seems better than
> create_tarball.rb) but I'm at the moment open to other options like improving
> create_tarball.rb to satisfy my needs.
>
> But I will try to not waste my time before doing anything so my question is:
> will be create_tarball.rb dropped in favor of Harald's script? Will they co-
> exist in the future? I'm asking because having such script in a bzr repo in
> launchpad seems a bit odd to be official for KDE.

Harald has been on-and-off maintaining Amarok's release script for
years, its not really a new development. So I guess they co-exist now.

Ian