Re: autopoint 0.16.1 depends on CVS

[Bruno Haible]

Dennis Schridde wrote:
> > 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?

It would be possible, but it would - with the current number of past
gettext releases - increase the size of archive.tar.gz from 300 KB to 5 MB.
On every user's disk.

> > 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...

How did you "deploy" this change to your fellow developers? Not through cvs?
What other version control system are you using?

Bruno