On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Eric MSP Veith wrote:

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> Heya,
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> On Thursday 16 December 2010, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There's a minor issue with an unexpanded AutoFu macro on head
>> and the rpm-5_4 branch.
> 
> oops, sorry, my fault. Forgot to commit that file. :-(
> 

;-) Happens all the time, no worry.

> Is there a good way to get a terse output from CVS on what has changed? I.e. 
> not as convoluted as "cvs status" is?
> 

cvs -n up

My only usage case for "cvs status -v" to discover
branch names. Sticky versions/dates are displayed with status,
but those get tricky too.

>> I still dunno what you are doing with Ruby AutoFu and s
>> I don't quite know what is needed.
> 
> I've ripped out all the Ruby guessing AutoFu as we decided in another mail 
> thread. Putting the nonstandard Ruby include dirs into CPPFLAGS should not 
> be a problem for packagers. I'll put a notice in the INSTALL file and that's 
> it.
> 
> Perhaps I'll introduce a --with-ruby-inc-dirs switch sometime. I couldn't 
> help but notice that the Python part takes great care to detect all possible 
> versions of python and all not-so-standard paths. Is that becoming a 
> candidate for ripout too, because it introduces a build-time dependency on 
> Python, too, just as it would with Ruby?
> 

Python was just first, doesn't mean correct. Yes the python AutoFu is
all rather Baroque'n for hysterical reasons, nothing else.

Keep it KISS: AutoFu is annoying to maintain.

>> What I would do is on the rpm-5_3 branch (but we differ
>> between targeting riby-1.9.x or not).
> 
> Yep, keep it clean. The code I produce currently (i.e., bindings) will be 
> tested with 1.8.7, too. Embedded Ruby is a completely different beast... 
> It's on my TODO list, too.
> 

Good. BTW, you might want to also check-in your changes on rpm-5_4
(and perhaps on rpm-5_3 but check w Per Oyvind first).

No hurry, but rpm-5_4 and rpm-5_3 end up getting snapshots and monthly
releases, unlike head.

73 de Jeff

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