Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that?
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On 29 October 2014 15:27, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) < arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu> wrote: > Dear GNU Hackers, > > > In quite a few guides I saw people suggest using the foreign automake > style to avoid having to create the required text files. > > The goal of this email is to get more people to use the GNU style, so > the interface for understanding an autotools project becomes more > consistent again: GNU style should become standard for all guides. > > > Among the required files, NEWS is easy to create but cannot be guessed > automatically because it is intended for humans, and README is becoming > standard (again) due to most code hosting sites using it as the summary > page. AUTHORS and ChangeLog normally only contain information which > already available in most version tracking systems - and can be created > easily from that. > > If autotools did this automatically, the barrier for using GNU style in > the autotools with a version tracking system would be much smaller: Just > write README and NEWS. > > > I initially planned to just send a small example script, but that > matured faster than I had expected, so you can now find it at > > > > https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/autochangelog/src/tip/create-or-update-changelog-and-authors.sh > > If someone with git-foo could cleanup the git ChangeLog creation to > conform with the GNU ChangeLog standard, that script should be a good > working example. > > The script only touches files which were created by the script or are > missing. > > > Best wishes, > Arne > > PS: I initially sent this mail to the autoconf list. The original > discussion is at [1] and includes the gnulib script which roughly does > for git what I propose here. Doing this in automake would have the > advantage that all users benefit from the lower barrier of entry to the > consistent GNU style. > > [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2014-10/msg00000.html > > -- > Doktorand > Gruppe: GHG > > Raum: 435/410 > Tel.: +49 721 608-22885 > arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu > > Karlsruher Institut für Technologie > IMK-ASF > Postfach 36 40 > 76021 Karlsruhe > > > >
