bug#8099: LaTeX and automake

2011-02-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
I have just been investigating the state of the art for LaTeX support. As far as I can tell there's nothing official; the most official things I can find are some unwritten documentation in the autotoolset manual: http://autotoolset.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html and this project suggestion by

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
I'm just reading the current FAQ under 1.3 Where can I get the latest versions of these tools? http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/faq/autotools-faq.html#Where-can-I-get-the-latest-versions-of-these-tools_003f Wouldn't it be useful to give a little script that installs know-good combinations

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/faq/autotools-faq.html#How-do-I-add-a-question-to-this-FAQ_003f Do you think, it would be a good idea to just open up a git repo (on github.com, for example) and put the autotools-faq.texi file there? Or is there already a git repo for this? Ralf

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-22 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 02/22/2011 11:35 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:30 +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: That Linux distributions usually come with a good set of autotools is irrelevant, since in my understanding all developers of *one* project should work with the *same* autotools versions. Of

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 22:30 +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: That Linux distributions usually come with a good set of autotools is irrelevant, since in my understanding all developers of *one* project should work with the *same* autotools versions. Of course, the project might also compile

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-22 Thread Miles Bader
Ralf Hemmecke hemme...@gmail.com writes: Sure. But it is also relevant if one developer adds a macro which is only available in some recent version of automake, say. Another developer might not yet have that automake version. It doesn't really seem any worse than _any_ potential tool

Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools

2011-02-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Ralf Hemmecke wrote on Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41:20PM CET: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/faq/autotools-faq.html#How-do-I-add-a-question-to-this-FAQ_003f Do you think, it would be a good idea to just open up a git repo (on github.com, for example) and put the autotools-faq.texi file