Re: autopoint needs cvs

[Bruno Haible]

Noah Slater wrote:
> Before I file a bug report, I just wanted to check I am not missing anything.

No problem, you can also write to bug-gnu-gettext also if you are a bit unsure.
The mailing list is archived at 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/;
writing to it enhances the public knowledge. Some other archives of the mailing
list are also covered by web search engines, which means the next person with
the same question may find the answer simply by googling.

> I am building a small GNU Python package and am using autopoint but
> this requires me to install CVS before it will do anything. I do not
> use CVS and the tool never calls CVS to do what it needs to.
> 
> I think this is unnecessary and the autopoint tool should only
> complain when it needs to use CVS.

autopoint relies on CVS, even if no connection over the network is made.
It uses CVS for compression; without CVS it would be impossible to squeeze
the 26 past releases of the intl/ directory, each having a size of about
500 KB on average, in an archive of 300 KB in size.

Bruno