Dagobert Michelsen wrote: > Am 01.06.2009 um 12:29 schrieb Sebastian Kayser: >> Sebastian Kayser wrote: >>> has anyone successfully cloned the gnulib git repository? When i >>> try to >>> follow the download instructions from their homepage [1] the clone >>> operation times out. >> Ok, never mind, i just noticed the news on their front page [1]. A >> couple of services is down, git is one of them. >> >> Has anyone ever thought of packaging gnulib so that we have it >> centrally >> available on the buildfarm? > > gnulib is not meant to be packaged. The projects needing them should > include the functionality they actually need: > >> Gnulib takes a different approach. Its components are intended to be >> shared at the source level, rather than being a library that gets >> built, >> installed, and linked against. Thus, there is no distribution tarball; >> the idea is to copy files from Gnulib into your own source tree.
That's exactly what i was aiming at. Having all the source files handy in one location (package) gives our maintainers instant access to them. No hassle cloning non-available git repositories. Debian has a gnulib package also. I wonder why, but heck, when even they as a GNU platform have one we should have one too ;) Sebastian _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
