Archiving/distributing

[blippy]

The following issues were noted upon releasing 1.4.0:

@milancurcic said "make dist failed to install CONTRIBUTORS, README.md and LICENSE."

My response: I agree. I will look into this.

@zbeekman said "If you can find a way to get make dist to package the missing markdown files, you can just manually add the tarball generated by make dist as a release asset."

Yes. I think it is easy enough for me to do this.

I note additional packaging problems:

• git creates archives based on what is checked into the repo, which unfortunately does not include configure
• there can be mismatches between the version numbers in tags, the configure.ac file, and what's in src/lib/datetime.f90

I will look into these issues. If anyone has a good anser to this, then let me know.

[blippy]

The discussion above originally referenced in #22 (comment)

[blippy]

@zbeekman also references the version mismatching at d49af9e#commitcomment-15688257

[blippy]

@milancurcic said "make dist failed to install CONTRIBUTORS, README.md and LICENSE."

Fixed by:
https://github.com/blippy/datetime-fortran/commit/20e9709a16e7e7dadde8a7aac5e3008f700b726b

[blippy]

Added some consistency checking of versioning when you '''make dist'''. Making the distribution will fail if those checks are not satisified.

See pull request: #26

Once patched, I think this issue can be closed.

[milancurcic]

I played a bit more with the make dist. See the files that come out of the tarball:

$ tar xzvf datetime-fortran-1.4.0.tar.gz 
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/INSTALL
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/configure
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/Makefile.am
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/scrub-clean.sh
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/tests/
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/tests/datetime_tests.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/tests/Makefile.am
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/tests/Makefile.in
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/mod_datetime.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/mod_strftime.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/Makefile.am
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/mod_timedelta.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/mod_clock.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/Makefile.in
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/mod_constants.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/datetime.f90
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/src/lib/datetime_module.mod
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/install-sh
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/Makefile.in
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/CONTRIBUTORS
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/mkdist.sh
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/configure.ac
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/aclocal.m4
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/datetime-fortran.pc.in
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/README.md
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/LICENSE
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/AUTHORS
datetime-fortran-1.4.0/missing

The datetime_module.mod shouldn't be in there. Is this easy to amend?

[blippy]

It looks as if all issues here are addressed, so I'll close it.

Raise a separate issue if necessary.