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Please include nqp-configure in the release tarballs
As the title says. As a downstream packager, this would make my work a lot easier.
@pstumpf Is this really about the submodule in the NQP source release files? (Which I suspect few people actually know about.) Or is this actually about the rakudo source release files? (The ones linked to on the http://rakudo.org/downloads website.)
@Altai-man If I understand this ticket correctly it's basically a matter of adapting the release procedure. Isn't this ticket then better solved by you?
@patrickbkr Yes, this is about the source releases generated from this (Raku/nqp) github repository.
This issue is confusing me now. I just have checked out rakudo sources available via download on rakudo.org and found nqp-configure included. Then downloaded https://github.com/Raku/nqp/releases/download/2021.04/nqp-2021.04.tar.gz from this repo and it contains the submodule too. 2021.03 is no different.
It currently looks like it's harder to find a source tarball without nqp-configure than with it included. @pstumpf could you, please, elaborate as to where do you download from?
@vrurg I think the ticket is about "nqp-2021.04.tar.gz" we generate in this repo.
It boils down to make release in nqp repo not skipping the nqp-configure directory, I'll look into it.
@pstumpf Did you possibly download the archive labeled "Source Code (ext)"? Those are auto-generated by GitHub for every package and are best ignored. That's a plain bundle of the files of the respective tag.
@Altai-man IIU vrurg correctly, those archives already contain nqp-configure. So the archives should already be fine. Question is: Can we do something about people downloading the auto-generated "Source Code" archives? Is it possible to add some descriptive text to the GitHub package? If yes we could add a short warning: "The nqp-*.tar.gz file contains the packaged source code of the release. Please ignore the Source Code (ext) files, those are automatically generated by GitHub ant contain the unprepared files of the repository."
Hmm, actually you are right, nqp-configure is present in the release tarball for this repo.
@pstumpf can you please clarify?