[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kenner) writes: > > Yes, but none of those are visible other than to the development community. > People who obtain the source distributions of projects don't get to see > those things. They DO see things like the ChangeLog format and coding > and documentation conventions and THOSE are the things that need to be > common among GNU projects.
It would be probably reasonable these days to require of someone who wants to do serious development to just download a SVN checkout for that [or they can use svnweb on http://gcc.gnu.org] -Andi