Re: autopoint 0.16.1 depends on CVS

[Dennis Schridde]

Am Dienstag, 3. April 2007 schrieb 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).
I guess it is not possible to use something different instead?
Eg. multiple archives, or per version subdirectories?


> > 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.
Actually it is not me who has problems with that.
Other devs and users started to curse after I deployed autopoint into our 
project...


> > 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.
I just assumed that if you are using cvs, you also download something.
I have to admit that I didn't understand the code completely.

--Dennis

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