Werner LEMBERG wrote: > the normal usage of gnulib is to import files into a project, this is, > calling `gnulib-tool --import', then adding the imported files to the > repository.
Hi Werner, In my experience, that is not "normal usage". I (and AFAIK, everyone who contributes regularly here) recommend *not* to version-control the files that gnulib-tool imports. > I wonder whether the step `adding files to the repository' is > necessary at all. Why not simply calling gnulib-tool directly in the > `autogen.sh' script? That is precisely what most projects already do. The packages I tend, (coreutils, diffutils, gzip, grep, patch, parted, idutils, vc-dwim, cppi) all invoke gnulib-tool via the autogen-like bootstrap script from gnulib's build-aux/ directory.
