Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: -* Ensure that the desired

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54,

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I'm wondering what purpose AC_PREREQ (etc) really serves if you're not using them to encode the versions of the autotools that are required to bootstrap a package in the way expected by the maintainers. It

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Jim Meyering wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I'm wondering what purpose AC_PREREQ (etc) really serves if you're not using them to encode the versions of the autotools that are required to bootstrap a package in the way expected by the

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting problems and also streamline some of the steps. From a7fef6319b09420f26fc6d2a508322b7c21b7997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting problems and also streamline some of the steps. ... From

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-27 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Reuben Thomas wrote: Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org wrote: -* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, etc. - are in your PATH.

Patches to README-release

2011-12-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting problems and also streamline some of the steps. From a7fef6319b09420f26fc6d2a508322b7c21b7997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:40:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Improvements to