On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 10:33 +0200, Antonio Borneo wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 11:46 PM Marc Schink <d...@zapb.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2024-06-23 at 10:27 +0200, Antonio Borneo wrote:
> > > ...
> > > - git2cl is only used for OpenOCD releases. We could keep it as a
> > > submodule and change the default of bootstrap to no-submodule.
> > >   git2cl is apparently not maintained anymore, so it could even
> > > be
> > > copied in our code, but since it's GPL2.0-only I prefer keeping
> > > it
> > > outside!
> > 
> > Where do we actually use git2cl? The ChangeLog file (also in
> > releases)
> > is "empty" and we have a seperate (manually generated) NEWS file
> > anyway.
> 
> I don't know all the alchemies run by Paul for a release, but if you
> download a
> release like openocd-0.12.0.tar.bz2 from sourceforge you will see it
> contains a
> ChangeLog that is 2093189 bytes.

Ah, okay. Btw, it's not available in the "releases" on GitHub.

> It's only relevant for the release and I think Paul could accept
> using adding a
> parameter only for the release, like:
> ./bootstrap submodule
> or
> ./bootstrap withsubmodule
> 
> For all the other users and for ACI there would be no need to
> download and use
> this submodule, so bootstrap by default could ignore it.
> 

Yep, sounds good. I will come up with some changes these days.

Best regards,
Marc


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