On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:51:23AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:14:25PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
>> >Hi everybody,
>> >
>> >due to a change of jobs, I am losing access to research.cys.de -- the
>> >current home of the autoconf macro archive. I could in fact move the
>> >archive to some other site (http://cryp.to/), but I wonder whether it
>> >wouldn't be smarter to use the oportunity to host the autoconf archive
>> >somewhere on <http://sources.redhat.com/autoconf/>.
>> >
>> >Would it be possible to create a CVS repository to which I'd have
>> >remote access to? I have all macros under CVS control, including a
>> >makefile that will convert them to HTML and create the web server on
>> >the fly. All that I need is "make", "perl" and some ISO C++ compiler,
>> >e.g. gcc 2.95.
>>
>> I'm happy to do this (I'm one of the site administrators for
>> sources.redhat.com), but wouldn't it make more sense to move things to
>> subversions.gnu.org? That's where the current repository is located,
>> AFAICT.
>>
>
>Don't get confused here, Chris. Peter is not talking about autoconf itself but
>a repository of m4 macros that he has collected from contributors that are not
>included with autoconf.
I'm aware of this. I thought it might be best to keep the macros close
to the actual repository as long as we were thinking about moving them.
But, I would be happy to set up a repository, regardless.
cgf
