Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jim Meyring wrote:
>> My impression is that few (if any) of the autogen scripts use gnulib
>
> The one gettext does.
>
>> there's another definition (the first one when I type "dict bootstrap")
>> that is more evocative: to load and initialize the operating system on
>> a computer.  Normally abbreviated to "{boot}".
>
> Well, that's the definition for computer-illiterate persons, not for
> hackers :-) Besides that, gnulib is not an operating system.

I'd call it a "historical" definition, rather than one
for the computer-illiterate.

Another feature: bootstrap adds .cvsignore and .gitignore
entries for files it supplies.

A missing feature: files supplied by gnulib-tool should be
removed by "make maintainer-clean".  If gnulib-tool doesn't
do that soon, I'll be changing bootstrap to do it.

It'd be great if gnulib-tool could subsume more of the
functionality in this bootstrap script.