bug#7988: the manual suggests installing macro files to hard-coded location

2011-03-19 Thread Peter Johansson
Hello Stefano, On 3/19/11 8:36 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2011, Peter Johansson wrote: I find the last sentence a bit strange because to me that sounds like Automake suggests that packagers should install macro files in a hard-coded directory not relative to

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Harlan, * Harlan Stenn wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 01:26:58AM CET: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of operation. Thanks for

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:38:39AM +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to co-mentor and

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of operation. It's mostly trivial.

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Pippijn van Steenhoven
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:38:39AM +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to co-mentor and

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 19 March 2011, Harlan Stenn wrote: I'm curious/interested about the TAP effort, as it might tie in nicely with some stuff we're working on for NTP: https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/GSoCProjectIdeas#Unit_tests Nice! Having a real use case from the very beginning would be

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Hi Ralf, Ralf wrote: * Harlan Stenn wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 01:26:58AM CET: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Pippijn wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of operation.

Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project

2011-03-19 Thread Harlan Stenn
Pippijn wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:38:39AM +0100, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: If there was a student interested in showing how easy it was to use automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to

Re: [GSoC Proposal] automake - Interfacing with a test protocol like TAP or subunit

2011-03-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: ABSTRACT:  The Test Anything Protocol (TAP) is a simple text-based protocol  that allows communication between test scripts and a test harness. ... Now, in all honesty, I must say that I've chosen TAP not