Re: autopoint 0.16.1 depends on CVS

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Dennis Schridde wrote:
> autopoint depends on CVS being installed

Yes. To document this better, I'm applying the appended patch.

> apparently to download the sourcecode, even if the correct version of
> gettext is installed.

This use of cvs downloads nothing; it only extracts the right version of the
gettext infrastructure from an archive (installed in
$prefix/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz).

> Maybe you want to check for cvs only when the installed gettext version
> is not sufficient.

This is not worth the coding and testing effort, IMO. Just install cvs.

> And maybe you want to provide downloading of a tarball as an alternative?
> wget, tar and gzip are probably more common than cvs.

autopoint downloads nothing. I don't think a program should make network
connections if the user did not ask for it and doesn't expect it.

Bruno


2007-04-02  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * DEPENDENCIES: Mention dependency towards cvs.
        Reported by Dennis Schridde <address@hidden>.

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      http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libcroco/0.6/
    + If it is installed in a nonstandard directory, pass the option
      --with-libcroco-0.6-prefix=DIR to 'configure'.
+ 
+ The following packages should be installed when GNU gettext is installed:
+ 
+ * CVS 1.11 or newer
+   + Recommended.
+     Needed by the 'autopoint' program.
+   + Homepage:
+     http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
+     http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
+   + Download:
+     http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/