[Mono-devel-list] Boot-strap mcs under cygwin

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> There are only three differences (all missing files) between the cvs version
> tagged with MCS_0_23, and the mcs 0.23 tarball (mcs-0.23.tar.gz):

Yes, as I said the three files below were lost:

>     Files mcs/mcs/ChangeLog and mcs-0.23/mcs/ChangeLog differ
>     Files mcs/mcs/class.cs and mcs-0.23/mcs/class.cs differ
>     Files mcs/mcs/expression.cs and mcs-0.23/mcs/expression.cs differ

And we had to regenerated them (so there is no MCS_0_23 tag for them)


> When I did the equivalent procedure with the mono 0.23 tarball, there were
> over 200 differences!
> 
>     $ diff -qrN -x CVS -x .cvsignore mono mono-0.23 | wc -l
>         216

Yes, CVS does not contain any of the generated files that you listed.  

Interesting is that we do not ship all the docs.

> The effect of this is that WinZip thinks the archive is corrupted, and
> doesn't offer much help: "Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid
> archive. If you downloaded this file, try downloading the file again."

That is your web browser trying to be smart and uncompressing on
download.  It happens in the best families. 

Miguel