[Geany-devel] Unit tests for Geany (continued from Github)

[Matthew Brush]

On 11/30/2011 09:45 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 30/11/2011 15:24, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
>> Am 30.11.2011 10:24, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I agree. Maybe we could add a section to HACKING file too as it would
>>>> fit there IMHO.
>>>
>>> Since we have a long release cycle lots of non-C speaking people use
>>> the Git version, so I think it needs to be where users can see it, not
>>> just us developers :)
>>
>> My understanding was that HACKING was the README for them. However,
>> maybe we should add a link between both. I don't think we need to refer
>> inside 'release' README to autogen.sh.
>
> I don't think HACKING is the README for unreleased sources, it's the
> README for people wanting to modify Geany's sources...  but yes, maybe
> it's supposed to be the same.
>
> However I agree, it makes no sense to tell people with a release tarball
> to run autogen.sh, since there is *no* autogen on release tarballs.  So,
> maybe we could either add a note in the current HACKING, or add
> something like a README.git or whatever mentioning the difference with
> the tarballs?
>

Or maybe a specific README.rst for git(hub) users that doesn't get 
packaged or released, which would be hard to miss since it'd show up on 
the repository page (I think it would override the README?).  We could 
have a hyperlink from that file to the full README and HACKING files in 
git(hub) also.

OTOH, autogen.sh scripts are so common, maybe it's not even worth doing 
anything extra at all and just leaving the existing instructions on the 
Git page on geany.org.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush