submodules again

2012-03-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Folks, the default operation (a) of `bootstrap' is clear: 1. The `gnulib' submodule URL is in file `.gitmodules'. 2. No special submodule entry in `.git/config'. 3. A (submodule) clone of `gnulib' is created. 4. All files of `gnulib' are checked out. If I already have a local `gnulib'

Re: Revised announce-gen patch

2012-03-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: Implementing Jim's suggestions. From 3e6c32b5834341ee8d1870f7b85db546b1a1f2d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:17:22 + Subject: [PATCH] announce-gen: make it use Digest::SHA where available. *

announce-gen: require perl-5.9.3

2012-03-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Wong wrote: How about using the generic Digest module instead? Something like this (totally untested) patch: diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen index 3ca90a9..c453d44 100755 --- a/build-aux/announce-gen +++ b/build-aux/announce-gen @@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ my

GSoC

2012-03-21 Thread vinay rao
Hi. I'm a student trying my chances at GSoC, and thought the GNU project was a very interesting opportunity. I was thinking of applying for the implementation of gnulib-tool in Python. I've been coding in Python for the last few years. I cloned the gnulib git and checked the source of gnulib-tool

Re: should an empty pkgdata_DATA cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by make install?

2012-03-21 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[dropping automake list] On 03/13/2012 01:30 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: [CC:ing Ralf, as I'd like to hear his opinion here] Reference: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-03/msg00078.html On 03/13/2012 01:14 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Now that I think about it, I'm

Re: submodules again

2012-03-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Folks, the default operation (a) of `bootstrap' is clear: 1. The `gnulib' submodule URL is in file `.gitmodules'. 2. No special submodule entry in `.git/config'. 3. A (submodule) clone of `gnulib' is created. 4. All files of `gnulib' are checked out. If I

Re: submodules again

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/21/2012 01:44 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: git-submodule's --reference option looks like it does what you want. However, balancing the repo duplication cost against the risk of error described in git-clone's --reference and --shared descriptions, so far, I have preferred to use more disk

Re: submodules again

2012-03-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: On 03/21/2012 01:44 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: git-submodule's --reference option looks like it does what you want. However, balancing the repo duplication cost against the risk of error described in git-clone's --reference and --shared descriptions, so far, I have preferred to

Re: GSoC

2012-03-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Vinay, I was thinking of applying for the implementation of gnulib-tool in Python. It will be exciting to see you apply! I've been coding in Python for the last few years. This is a good starting position for this project, indeed. I wanted to know what the mentors expect out of

Re: should an empty pkgdata_DATA cause creation of $(pkgdatadir) by make install?

2012-03-21 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Stefano, We finally decided that the older behaviour was a bug. We've thus fixed it (in the automake maint branch, fix to appear in automake 1.11.4), Cool! Many thanks for your considerations and perseverance. and I now propose the attached patch against gnulib-tool. OK to push? +