On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:39 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:59 -0700, Nigel Tao wrote:
> > On 4/9/06, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> > > support 'make uninstall'
> >
> > Should this be an upcoming Gnome Goal??
>
> That's pretty hard to make a goal of it, as this can break over time. A
> tinderbox doing nothing but continuous 'make distcheck's would be of
> more use, it could automatically notify the maintainer when the
> build/(un)install is broken.
In an ideal world this isn't required as everyone should be releasing
tarballs with make distcheck anyway. At the least it saves foolish
"tarball doesn't compile as foo.c is missing" bugs. :)
Ross
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