Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-05 Thread Matěj Týč
On 5 March 2010 00:09, Karl Berry wrote: > Here's my attempt at describing the third "mixed" approach to Gnulib > sources.  Is it ok? > > > @node VCS Issues > @section Issues with Version Control Systems > > If a project stores its source files in a version control system (VCS), > such as CVS, Sub

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-04 Thread Karl Berry
Here's my attempt at describing the third "mixed" approach to Gnulib sources. Is it ok? @node VCS Issues @section Issues with Version Control Systems If a project stores its source files in a version control system (VCS), such as CVS, Subversion, or Git, one needs to decide which files to commi

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Simon Josefsson writes: > k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > >> What I mean - I wouldn't mind commiting gnulib stuff to VCS, but only >> if I can omit files generated by autoreconf. >> >> FWIW, that is exactly what I do for Texinfo. It helps my contributors >> to not spend

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > What I mean - I wouldn't mind commiting gnulib stuff to VCS, but only > if I can omit files generated by autoreconf. > > FWIW, that is exactly what I do for Texinfo. It helps my contributors > to not spend time dealing with gnulib, and it helps

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-01 Thread Karl Berry
What I mean - I wouldn't mind commiting gnulib stuff to VCS, but only if I can omit files generated by autoreconf. FWIW, that is exactly what I do for Texinfo. It helps my contributors to not spend time dealing with gnulib, and it helps me because it avoids gnulib-skew differences between

Re: gnulib module install

2010-03-01 Thread Matěj Týč
On 23 February 2010 00:34, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hello Matěj, > > (how do you pronounce your name? like Matyesh?) This one is quite difficult for English speaking people :-) I have found this one on the web and it is quite accurate: Approx English pronunciation for Matej: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AA

Re: gnulib module install

2010-02-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Matěj, (how do you pronounce your name? like Matyesh?) > The script solution you have proposed does the job, but I hate when the > autogen.sh file has more than, let's say, ten lines. Well, the autogen.sh script has more to do if you omit more files from version control. An autogen.sh scr

Re: gnulib module install

2010-02-22 Thread Matěj Týč
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 23:43 +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > Matěj Týč wrote: > > What I don't like about the second solution is the necessity of having > > gnulib-tool available. ... > > ... should be performed manually from the gnulib git. > > You surely can imagine that the difficulty of t

Re: gnulib module install

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Matěj Týč wrote: > What I don't like about the second solution is the necessity of having > gnulib-tool available. ... > ... should be performed manually from the gnulib git. > You surely can imagine that the difficulty of the build process would > increase because of this. Well, "manually" d

gnulib module install

2010-02-21 Thread Matěj Týč
Hello, I can't help myself, but I am not satisfied with the current choice of methods how to install a gnulib module (with respect to version control systmes)? AFAIK from the manual, there are two possible ways: - Either one commits everyhing to the repository (I don't like that since it i