LyX 2.4.0dev Testing Release

[Pavel Sanda]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 10:39:54PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:47:20 -0400
> schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:
> 
> > On 10/25/20 4:41 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 04:55:52PM +0100, Kornel Benko wrote:  
> > >> schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:  
> > >>> Is there a cmake way to generate the tarballs? I use 'make dist' from
> > >>> autotools.  
> > > ...  
> > >>   $ make package_source
> > >> should create LyX-2.4.tar.gz and LyX-2.4.tar.xz  
> > > Does this generate the same set of files as autotools do?
> > > (I suspect the answer in no.)  
> > 
> > I do not know the answer to that. Kornel?
> 
> The answer is: It generates _more_ than autotools.
> It generates an overset of autotools.

Implication is that if official tarballs will be produced by autotools we
should use them for tarballs now as well so no new round of testing is needed.

Pavel