Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: List modules separately, explicit vs dependencies.

2010-06-14 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Bruno Haible () Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:57:00 +0200 For me, it's a bit different: I don't think the number of modules has a lot of information. Perhaps it's just my (personal) gnulib-newbie fear... There are some modules, like 'stdint', which provide hardly any code, and 'regex', whi

Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: List modules separately, explicit vs dependencies.

2010-06-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Thi, > To me, somewhat interesting is a count of the specified modules > (i.e., aggregate information that i am not directly aware of), > and really interesting is the full list of "support modules" > (non-specified dependencies). The latter because it gives me > an idea of the project's "util

Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: List modules separately, explicit vs dependencies.

2010-06-10 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Bruno Haible () Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:32:18 +0100 I apologize for the delayed response. If you just cut randomly, you will introduce bugs in your package, for sure. There are two reasonable uses of '--avoid': 1) When the documentation of the modules mentions that a module

Re: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: List modules separately, explicit vs dependencies.

2010-04-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Thien-Thi, > I saw the huge list of modules > pulled in and wondered where to start cutting (via "--avoid"). > This change to gnulib-tool helps me to do the job more quickly > by letting me ignore (for the purposes of experimental cutting) > the explicitly specified modules. If you just cut ra

[PATCH] gnulib-tool: List modules separately, explicit vs dependencies.

2010-04-01 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
* gnulib-tool (func_import): For "Module list with included dependencies", output two module lists: explicit and dependencies. Signed-off-by: Thien-Thi Nguyen --- Starting to use gnulib for GNU RCS, and playing with "gnulib-tool --import strsignal". Fun stuff. I saw the huge list of modules p