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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] setcap for CMake install under Linux

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:44:04 +0100
2014/1/13 Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Missing also make dist-* (gzip, bzip...) family in CMake
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> Yes - we need a way of releasing the source to a particular version, for the benefit of third parties making binary or source packages and people who need or want to build from source rather than using binary packages.
Please use VCS snapshots for this, like git-archive. It is a pretty
good practice and this way we would release exactly what is tagged in
the VCS repo.