Re: distributing .gmo files in tarballs

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:35:28AM +0200, Tino Meinen wrote:
> I did a make dist on todays gnumeric (anonymous) cvs
> it produced a tarball size: 15066714 bytes
>
> Then I changed /po/Makefile.in and /po/Makefile.in.in so that DISTFILES
> no longer contained $(GMOFILES)
> and then after a ./configure redid: make dist.
>
> This produced a tarball that didn't contain the .gmo files.
> The size was: 12651626 bytes
>
> So, difference in size with/without .gmo files: 2.3 MB
>
> I understood that it is up to the maintainers of a package to decide if
> they want to distribute the .gmo files in their tarballs, and
> considering that people who build from tarballs will likely have gettext
> and intltools installed, i would argue that it would be worthwile get
> rid of the gmo files in the tarballs.
>
> It would save quite a bit of bandwith and download-time, while the
> increase in buildtime will be negligible.

I'd be happy to remove them shrinking the download size would be
nice.  Does anyone see a reason not to do this ?  I'll give it a try
in the next release.