* On Tuesday 2005-05-10 at 09:50:01 +0100, Julian Foad wrote: > Charles Levert wrote: > >I propose adding this new file to CVS. > [Information for Grep developers about known distributions of Grep.] > > This is a useful bit of information for us developers, so I would like to > add this file somewhere. > > However, it should not go into the source distribution (tar ball) because > that would create a circular reference that could never be kept up to date. > Therefore it needs either to be specifically excluded from being packaged > by "make dist", or it needs to go somewhere else: > > a separate module in CVS;
Note that being in CVS in no way automatically puts it in the "make dist" tarballs, so there's no strict need for a separate module. However, putting it in CVS without pointing to it from elsewhere would make it relatively hard to find. It could be linked using <http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/grep/grep/> though. Remember, we have those two CVS trees at the moment: savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/grep savannah.gnu.org:/webcvs/grep > an issue in the issue tracker; I would miss the ability to just update it (and remember previous versions), being forced to systematically add new comments. Not the right tool IMHO. > a web page that we developers can update; Yes. See CVS above if it's in the <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/> tree. I have already offered to create and maintain a developper page there a while back, but got no reply to this. The message was <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2005-03/msg00053.html>. in the "Plan for grep" thread: ] I can prepare a new current-developments web ] page, to be linked prominently from both web ] sites (we'll figure out how for Savannah), ] that explains and documents all this and that ] is kept up to date. It could be a mix of TODO and DISTRIBUTORS. I would put it under <http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/development.html> or something. The linking details can be worked out. The offer still stands. > a Wiki page. Similar, but we don't have a Wiki. I'm not sure it would be worth the trouble setting one up just for a relatively small project that already has trouble with the restricted amount of spare time people can devote to it. > This can't be the only meta-data that we keep; I imagine there must already > be something that can serve as a precedent. In GNU grep or elsewhere in GNU projects? I don't think the GNU coding standards say anything related to this.
