AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

2023-01-08 Thread Carsten Carsten
Thanks Philippe, that was spot on! I already had installed bison via brew but forgotten to put it into the PATH, so still the macOS version was used. I also got another compile error: gnubg.c:4317:38: error: use of undeclared identifier 'rl_filename_quote_characters'; did you mean

Re: AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

2023-01-03 Thread Carsten Wenderdel
Hi Philippe, thanks for your detailed answer! > I converted the gnubg and gnubg-nn subdirectories in separate git repos. > This seemed more natural to have gnubg at the root of its repo. Yes, separate repositories might also make sense, I don't know what's better. Having both in one

Re: AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

2023-01-03 Thread Carsten Wenderdel
Thanks for your answer Øystein! I agree that converting from cvs to git is a good idea. However, GitHub as the git repo provider may not be the best, and I think that should be discussed. (I do love GitHub, and I use it for all my personal projects, but there are some issues ... ) What I

Re: AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

2023-01-03 Thread Øystein Schønning-Johansen
Happy new year to all! I agree that converting from cvs to git is a good idea. However, GitHub as the git repo provider may not be the best, and I think that should be discussed. (I do love GitHub, and I use it for all my personal projects, but there are some issues ... ) What I rather suggest

Re: AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

2023-01-02 Thread Philippe Michel
Hello Carsten, I agree that using git would have many advantages. I had tried to convert the repository (with cvs-fast-export) some time ago, but I'm not too familiar with git and wasn't sure the result was right. The documentation of cvs-fast-export gives a lot of warnings... On the other

AW: Development - an outsider’s perspective

2023-01-01 Thread Carsten Wenderdel
Hello again, first I’d like to apologise for sending the same message three times. Should not happen again. About a migration to git: I tried two different tools with different results: a) cvs-fast-export, from https://gitlab.com/esr/cvs-fast-export b) cvs2git, part of cvs2svn, from