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Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf


From: Ben Pfaff
Subject: Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:12:03 -0700
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Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> GNOME and some other GNU projects use the name 'autogen.sh' for scripts with
> this purpose. It's a well-known and self-explaining name. I'd suggest to
> rename 'bootstrap' to 'autogen.sh'.

One oddity of the name "autogen.sh" is that there is a GNU
project named "autogen" that is not, as far as I know, related to
"autogen.sh".
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