Hacker News Reader

It's also a case study on how to make a tidy project using the autotools. The only thing I'd change is to commit a 0-byte m4/.keep file and then remove autogen.sh in favour of autoreconf.

But why would you host autotooled projects on github, where they don't let you upload the release tarballs generated by make distcheck?

View on HN

Release tarballs can be uploaded on a third party, I usually don't like to commit binary blobs, especially releases, since you could just clone the release tag and run make distcheck. I'll commit a m4/.keep.

I'm griping about the fact that github removed its download functionality. Agreed that release tarballs shouldn't be committed in the repo.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com