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| author | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2017-05-10 20:22:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2017-05-12 14:25:27 +0300 |
| commit | 8068fc0d1dc5f8975a2df3719e5547f6eb195dd4 (patch) | |
| tree | ee0079c831a356fdb2ef9ad223b7a256d6a43e64 /docs/markdown | |
| parent | 6e59d845341996b02a74702fbf50e9df671640ab (diff) | |
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Add test and release notes.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md index 8a7f263..c93fee8 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.41.0.md @@ -38,3 +38,18 @@ pkg.generate(libraries : libs, description : 'A simple demo library.', variables : ['datadir=${prefix}/data']) ``` + +## A target for creating tarballs + +Creating distribution tarballs is simple: + + ninja dist + +This will create a `.tar.xz` archive of the source code including +submodules without any revision control information. This command also +verifies that the resulting archive can be built, tested and +installed. This is roughly equivalent to the `distcheck` target in +other build systems. Currently this only works for projects using Git +and only with the Ninja backend. + + |