Bug#465369: GoLearn

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:23:05PM +0000, Enrico Zini wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:38:13PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> Oh - and you added some symlinks to the source, which are broken 
>> until the golink binary it built. That's bad. You should probably 
>> avoid those, and instead create the symlinks in the Makefile (install 
>> target).
>
>I'm not sure if the symlinks should be distributed.  What I currently 
>have in mind is to redefine --go to choose a preset configuration; 
>therefore, running "gosomewhing" would be the same as goplay 
>--go=something.
>
>What --go is currently doing, I'd move it to a new option 
>--primary=facet
>
>If it makes sense to ship the symlinks, we can do the same as gzip or 
>grep are doing, whatever it is.

In my opinion it never makes sense to distribute broken symlinks, 
even if technically possible.

German Debian mirror is not responding currently and main one is dead 
slow, so I give up on investigating grep and gzip right now - but I bet 
they do as I propose: create symlinks in upstream install process, so 
that the upstream tarball has no symlinks and the Debian packaging 
process only deals with non-broken symlinks.  But we'll see about that 
later... :-)


  - Jonas

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