Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-11-14 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/29/2014 04:29 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that? For GNU projects, the 'gnu' flavor still makes

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Hi Flameeyes, Am 30.10.2014 00:43, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: All good and well, but then I may have misunderstood Arne's original point. If he's trying to get the GNU style to be good enough That means I did not make my point clear enough. Second try: I don’t want to change the GNU style.

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30 October 2014 06:45, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu wrote: Am 30.10.2014 00:43, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: I don’t want to change the GNU style. I want to have an easier way to *adhere to* the existing GNU style by providing default tool support for creating

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK)
Am 30.10.2014 10:15, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: On 30 October 2014 06:45, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu wrote: Am 30.10.2014 00:43, schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: I don’t want to change the GNU style. I want to have an easier way to *adhere to* the existing GNU style

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30 October 2014 09:55, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu wrote: Great. But people don't *want* to adhere to the GNU style, Do not want to adhere to the GNU style or do they not want to bother with creating the files? There is a very important difference in

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that? Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On 29 October 2014 15:27, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) arne.babenhauserhe...@kit.edu

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/29/2014 04:29 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: [we tend to avoid top-posting on technical lists] Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that? For GNU projects, the 'gnu' flavor still makes sense, even if it

Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

2014-10-29 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 29 October 2014 22:39, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: [we tend to avoid top-posting on technical lists] Sorry, me sleepy and not paying enough attention. Can't we just say that gnu-flavour automake is pointless and foreign should be the default? Or am I too opinionated on that?