Am 30.10.2014 10:15, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: > On 30 October 2014 06:45, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) > <arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu> wrote: >> Am 30.10.2014 00:43, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: >> I don’t want to change the GNU style. I want to have an easier way to >> *adhere to* the existing GNU style by providing default tool support for >> creating the ChangeLog and AUTHORS file from versiontracking systems. > > Great. But people don't *want* to adhere to the GNU style,
Do not want to adhere to the GNU style or do they not want to bother with creating the files? There is a very important difference in motivation: People from the first group get what they want with foreign style. People from the latter group however would be happy to use GNU style, if it did not create additional work for them. This change is for the latter group, since the former group can already switch to foreign style by just adding a single parameter. > most people > just end up creating 0-sized AUTHORS NEWS and ChangeLog files, because > otherwise automake fails, and then they complain about autotools being > messy and requiring useless boilerplate. Autogenerating the AUTHORS and ChangeLog would reduce this to a single 0-sized file, because nowadays most people understand that a README is important -- I think the same will happen for the NEWS file, once code hosting platforms start using the NEWS file as source to provide human-readable news about projects. Then this would eliminate the 0-sized files. Best wishes, Arne PS: I know your autotools mythbuster: It helped me a lot in adding distcheck-support for my projects. Example: https://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/wisp/src/6cf3f78205bec638f9eb8aba7344946e70bfd0e1/Makefile.am Sadly much of my own autotools work also involved cargo-culting. Note: Here you note that autotools need COPYING, but this is created automatically nowadays. You only need to provide it if you don’t want to use the GPL. - https://autotools.io/automake/options.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
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