On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 8:35 PM Marc Schink <d...@zapb.de> wrote: > > 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.
Github is not the official repository of OpenOCD. I think the releases there are autogenerated by 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. Thanks, Antonio
