Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Fri Sep 5 15:57:26 CEST 2008


Hi,

Am Freitag, den 05.09.2008, 12:30 +0200 schrieb Paul-Valentin Borza:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 17:31 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> >> I was about to package accelgel for Debian. I exported the latest svn,
> >> tried to generate a clean source tarball with
> >> $ autogen.sh && make dist
> >> and tried to use the resulting .tar.gz to build the package.
> >> Unfortunately, it seems that the generated tarball is not complete, for
> >> example it misses ./accelneo/include/accelneo.h
> >>
> >> Would you do me a favour and provide an "official" source tarball of
> >> your release, preferably one created by "make dist"? Then I'll continue
> >> with packaging it.
> 
> It's pretty strange that you gen a missing accelneo.h as the file is on SVN.
> The latest version is on SVN.
> Do you still have problems with missing accelneo.h?

Sorry for not being clear: I did not try to compile directly from the
svn checkout. Instead, I have built a release tarball with make dist,
but this tarball does not work because it is missing some files, e.g.
accelneo.h. There is a way to tell automake what files to include in a
release tarball, but I don’t know a lot about automake yet. 

Having a working "make dist" is not really critical, but it’s a sign of
good automake packaging, and it allows you to easily create release
tarballs. Also, "make distcheck" is useful. See
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/automake/Dist.html if you are
interestd in that.

> > BTW, what are you plans now that GSOC is over? Are you continuing the
> > development of accelges?
> 
> Glad you're asking. I'm definitely thinking on continuing this
> project, and as you said I'm thinking in turning it to a proper
> program.
> That's why I've bought accelsense.org, exactly for this purpose. Once
> I have everything set up on accelsense.org, I'll move the code there
> on git.
> And maybe other members would like to contribute.
> I'll add your items from the above list to the TO-DO list. Just that
> right now I don't have time to work on it, at least not this month.
> I'm also doing an internship in Slovenia that's why I'm that busy.

Glad to hear that. May I suggest that you set up the git repository
earlyier, so that people can start hacking on their branches until you
have time to conitnue development?

Thanks,
Joachim

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