Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 29 April 2011 19:26, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think it's time, if you're interested. > > I am. Is there anything for me to do here? I can't quite tell from > reading what you wrote.
Do you want to create a gnulib module? It would arrange in its modules file to include a template (via Files:), and add a Makefile rule (via its Makefile.am: section) to substitute the package name into the numerous slots in the template file. I.e., compare the file from grep and diffutils. I think all differences are just s/grep/diffutils/. i.e., just the package name. For extra credit, add a method for a package to insert its own private steps (via a sed/perl/awk snippet?) somewhere into the resulting file. Then, even coreutils could use it, inserting via this hook the parts that no other package would probably ever use.
