Re: [PATCH] extract gifs from icons.shar at make time

Getting rid of the shar archive suites me just fine :]

From an authoring point of view it's not terribly useful :/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@hem.passagen.se>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: "Duane Wessels" <wessels@squid-cache.org>; <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extract gifs from icons.shar at make time

> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > What is the consensus? My preference is to extract into the build dir, and for the source tarballs to use shar to extract the
icons,
> > rather than coming pre extracted. I'll happily bend to feedback though :-]
>
> Or we change the HEAD version to not use the shar file.. CVS knows how
> to handle binary files if told to (per file)...
>
> Using the shar approach will make life a tiny bit harder for people
> trying to build Squid on non-UNIX environments (i.e. native NT).
>
> /Henrik
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 02 2001 - 16:41:18 MST