Easibox 0.1.5 released
Simon Burton
simonb at webone.com.au
Sun Mar 30 04:11:55 EST 2003
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:01:57 +0100, phil hunt wrote:
>
> Easibox is a utility for making tar files, zip files and other
> archive files, designed to be particularly useful when making
> releases of open source projects.
>
> Easibox was written to solve a problem I had when releasing
> open source software packages, such as my Leafwa program. The
> technique I was using was manually creating a directory with
> the required filename (such as "leafwa-0.6.1"), copying those
> files to be archived into the directory, and then cd'ing to
> that directory's parent and running tar to create the tarball.
> I found this process time-consuming and error-prone. So I
> decided there must be a better way...
>
I use make for this; the files are listed in a makefile.
Simon Burton.
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