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Re: a saner bootstrap script


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: a saner bootstrap script
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:44:37 +0200

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On 19 Oct 2011, at 20:13, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>>> Jim, please consider pulling it into coreutils master as a better fix than
>>>> twidding Makefiles after the fact in bootstrap.conf.
>>>>
>>>>> This -Iintl option will disappear with gettext version 0.19 - because
>>>>> then "gettextize --intl" will not work any more; it's already deprecated.
>>>>
>>>> And then, when coreutils moves to gettext-0.19, it's easy to remove the
>>>> diff file at the same time.
>>
>> Your change got me past that bump.
>> That's definitely a better way to work around the problem.
>>
>>> Ping.
>>
>> I haven't forgotten.
>
> Okay, thanks.
>
>> It's taking so long because this task has
>> priority lower than almost everything else -- it's primarily
>> an optimization, after all.
>
> Bummer. Being at the back of the queue is no fun, especially when all the 
> folks
> that arrive after you get served first.

Hi Gary,

Your suggestion of unfair treatment is unjustified.
Are you trying to demotivate me/us?
No review request of a 1000-line rewrite -- or even a 100-line rewrite --
has taken precedence over yours.

If you had proposed incremental changes, as requested,
the review barrier would not be so high.

> Maybe a return to plan A is better after all: Where I ask if anyone has a
> reasonable objection to my committing the saner bootstrap to gnulib (which of

Please try to adopt a more accommodating tone.
Already you have refused the suggestion to present incremental
changes.  Now, when review of your monolith doesn't happen as
quickly as you'd like, you propose to oust the preexisting,
more-widely-used script.  Doesn't that seem premature, or even
impetuous to you?

So far, gnulib development has been remarkably cordial and professional.
Let's try to keep it that way.

Jim



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