"Joel E. Denny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> "Joel E. Denny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There's already a bootstrap module in gnulib.
>
> You mean build-aux/bootstrap?

Yes.

>> We sync things around periodically.
>
> I was hoping for something more formal: all developers commit their
> bootstrap-inner.m4sh changes to gnulib instead of to their own projects.

That's already the idea, using gnulib's bootstrap.
And things are in sync, modulo a few kludges I've
had to add for coreutils.

> Writing bootstrap to download bootstrap-inner.m4sh automatically might
> help encourage this practice.  Then I don't have to hunt through the logs
> of several other projects in order to avoid reinventing bootstrapping
> fixes.


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