Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving OpenRC to a meson-based build

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:55:17PM +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:39:34 -0600
> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>
> > I thought about autotools. I'm not really fond of its syntax, and I've
> > been told that, to use autotools correctly, I would need to start
> > generating manual release tarballs again because I would need to put
> > the autotools generated cruft in them.
>
> Not all that hard, to be honest. Autotools adds a "make dist" target and
> then you just upload that tarball to GitHub by adding a new release.

Is that functionality available through the github API, or do you have
to go to the web site?

Also, another concern I would have is the tarballs are not reproducible
that way.

William