On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
I'm happy to read this :-)
You should be happy that a number of us have been interested in Automake-NG enough to remain subscribed to its mailing list and provide comments on directions and ideas. Being on the mailing list requires a level of dedication.
Debian's attitude is perfectly understandable here, since the package is still at an alpha status, and hasn't seen any release or pre-release yet. Which makes me think that forcing users to bootstrap the project from a Git branch hidden in Automake's repository in order to use it might be hampering their willingness to give it a try. It's probably time to separate for good Automake-NG from mainline Automake, and to issue some early alpha releases. Not sure when I'll have time to do this properly though ...
Git surely makes it easy to promote a branch to a new top-level repository. Having it available by default in a repository would be easier to grasp for git-challenged people like me. Alpha/beta release packages would help quite a lot.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
