groff home page updated (was: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots)

2022-11-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2022-07-16T11:41:44+, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > ... not only groff is affected by the non-working of daily snapshots. > For example, FreeType has exactly the same problem. IMHO, such > snapshots do more harm than good in most cases. [...] > Hope this helps. I guess it makes sense asking the

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-07-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> > I think that if GNU doesn't have the infrastructure or personnel >> > to support these, then, yes, the Savannah administrators should >> > fork (or just patch) cgit to the extent necessary to suppress the >> > exposure of these snapshot download links. I had no idea they >> > weren't truly s

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-07-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[dropped Bruno and bug-gnulib from distribution, added Werner] At 2022-06-25T17:45:01-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 6/19/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > I think that if GNU doesn't have the infrastructure or personnel to > > support these, then, yes, the Savannah administrators should fork (or

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-25 Thread Dave Kemper
On 6/19/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I think that if GNU doesn't have the infrastructure or personnel to > support these, then, yes, the Savannah administrators should fork (or > just patch) cgit to the extent necessary to suppress the exposure of > these snapshot download links. I had no ide

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-19 Thread Bruno Haible
G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I've > become uncertain about whether groff's build is doing to the right thing > with respect to the '.version' file that it creates in Makefile.am (by > running git-version-gen). GNU gettext's Makefile.am happens to have the same rules as groff's Makefile.am. As far

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Bruno, At 2022-06-19T16:43:51+0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Branden, > > Have things worked out for you by now? Is the .tarball-version > workflow clear? Should we document it better in the git-version-gen > script? Thanks for following up. I haven't had time to dig into this. I've become

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-19 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Branden, Have things worked out for you by now? Is the .tarball-version workflow clear? Should we document it better in the git-version-gen script? Bruno === I wrote: > > > By the way, if submodules are not what you want,

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Branden, > > By the way, if submodules are not what you want, i.e. if you always > > want to use the newest gnulib, I suggest to use the > > gnulib/top/gitsub.sh script. > > I have no principled objection to submodules; the decision to use them > (well, just this one, for gnulib) was taken bef

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Bruno, Thank you for the quick response! At 2022-06-04T00:38:23+0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Branden, > > > -elif test "x$fallback" = x || git --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > +elif test "x$fallback" = x && ! git --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > v=UNKNOWN > > else > > v=$fa

Re: git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Branden, > -elif test "x$fallback" = x || git --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then > +elif test "x$fallback" = x && ! git --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then > v=UNKNOWN > else > v=$fallback I don't think that's a bug. The --fallback option is documented like this: --fallback VERSION

git-version-gen not working with Savannah/cgit snapshots

2022-06-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[please keep the groff list in CCs so its developers can see responses] Hello gnulib team, I'm trying to get groff shipshape for a release candidate and have been trying many different build scenarios. One issue that I noticed, as did others long before me[3], is that the snapshot archives that