Surprising increase in distfile size in 2.1.0

[ryandesign]

The GitHub generated tarball of ancient 2.0.0 was 102KB. The tarball of ancient 2.1.0 is 15.7MB. This increase is surprising. I think most/all of this is coming from the new testing directory. Is this directory required to build/install ancient? I tried deleting it and ./configure and make and make install worked fine.

[temisu]

It is indeed the test-files that are reason for the size increase. They are not required for building nor installing. Only if you wish to run the regression test.

[ryandesign]

How would you feel about offering an official distribution tarball for each version? It could exclude nonessential files like this testing directory, and include files like those generated by ./autogen.sh. You could attach this tarball to the GitHub release.

[temisu]

I’ll look into it - I anyway need to do a fixup release because of visual studio warnings.

[temisu]

Please check if the distfile is now reasonable - I had to debug it remotely (since I have problems running autotools locally). According to logs it is doing the right thing.

Acount the generated files - this has to wait a bit more