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thewml / website-meta-language

An old offline HTML preprocessor (which can be used for static site generation), written in Perl and C that is still maintained for legacy reasons, but probably not recommended for new sites.
https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/website-meta-language/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Mint a new release #14

Closed shlomif closed 5 years ago

shlomif commented 5 years ago

I'd like to mint a new release tarball with the changes on the master branch. @xtaran : please let me know when the wml code is working for you so I can do it. Thanks!

xtaran commented 5 years ago

Looks fine.

I though wasn't able to create a release tar ball with cmake. There seems no such feature like make dist in cmake. I also found no equivalent for make distclean.

So I ended up doing git clean -dxf; cd src/; tar cvJf ../../wml_2.10.2~rc1.orig.tar.xz ./, that gave me a tar ball with nearly the same file list as the previous one, only cmake/Shlomif_Common.cmake was missing. Copied that in manually from an older release.

With that tar ball as base for my Debian package, it works fine.

(Short rant: I really do not understand why people prefer cmake over autotools. It took me quite some time to get the Debian wml package working again after the IMHO unnecessary switch to cmake. Sorry, that had to be said once.)

shlomif commented 5 years ago

Hi @xtaran !

Looks fine.

I though wasn't able to create a release tar ball with cmake. There seems no such feature like make dist in cmake. I also found no equivalent for make distclean.

There is make package_source : https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CPack.html .

So I ended up doing git clean -dxf; cd src/; tar cvJf ../../wml_2.10.2~rc1.orig.tar.xz ./, that gave me a tar ball with nearly the same file list as the previous one, only cmake/Shlomif_Common.cmake was missing. Copied that in manually from an older release.

With that tar ball as base for my Debian package, it works fine.

OK.

(Short rant: I really do not understand why people prefer cmake over autotools. It took me quite some time to get the Debian wml package working again after the IMHO unnecessary switch to cmake. Sorry, that had to be said once.)

I listed my reasons for preferring cmake here - https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ . cmake does some tasks somewhat differently than autotools, but what you want to do is usually possible.

shlomif commented 5 years ago

I released 2.12.0. Closing this issue - thanks!

xtaran commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the two links!