Hi Max, On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 02:38:43PM +0200, Max wrote: > I'd like to propose to switch from local (unmaintained?) copy of > git-version-gen > script and use it directly from upstream gnulib package. It's available > pretty-much > everywhere (including ancient Debian which we support for nightly). It's also > available in meta-oe: https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/47365/
this sounds like yet another of the changes that you recently seem to like to introduce to the build infrastructure which I don't like. What kind of maintenance does something like git-version-gen require? What kind of bugs have we ever encountered in the copies that we keep in our repos? Where is the *actual* benefit to us as developers and particularly to our users? To me, this looks like the right thing in theory, but then in reality it will mean all buildhosts/docker-images need to be updated, virtually every wiki page related to building osmocom from source needs updates. Projects like osmo-combo will need to be updated. Other people's dockerfiles or similar "recipes" need updates. Is all of this an efficient use of our time? Again, what bottom-line benefit does this bring? To me it just sounds like a change that is likely to create fall-out and frustration down the line, for no obvious advantage. -- - Harald Welte <[email protected]> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
