[task #15674] ArXiv anc/ directory - publication checklist

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Follow-up Comment #3, task #15674 (project reproduce):

I wasn't familiar with latexpand! It looks so interesting and useful for this
purpose! The idea of having the top directory only for arXiv is also good. 

One question: does arXiv also allow uploading ".tar.gz" files in the 'anc'
directory? If so, we can simply have three files in the 'anc' directory:
'README.md', 'README-hacking.md' and 'maneaged-XXXXXX.tar.gz' (or any other
name! the name 'maneaged' just occurred to me! but the XXXXXX can be the GIt
checksum).

I think this will be less over-whealming for a random arXiv viewer than having
many (probably ~50) files in many sub-directories directly visible in the
arXiv abstract page. 

Also, none of the Maneage files are usable when downloaded alone, its much
more easier for an interested reader to just download a tarball and have
everything packaged and ready to go. In the '.tar.gz' file we will be able to
keep file permissions and we can simply use Git to put a full snapshot of the
current commit there.

Also, since there are only three files in the 'anc' file, there won't be any
problem in terms of ordering and the viewers will always see all the files
;-).

What do you think?

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