Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some questions regarding tagging :)

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 11:30, Magnus Therning wrote:

> - It seems rather silly that m4 comments don't work for tag-lines:
>   'dnl arch-tag: my tag' does nothing for 'tla inventory --tags'.
>   Is this (being) fixed?

This should be fixed, yeah.  I don't know of anyone working on it. 
There is however a hack to work around it:

define(arch-tag)

> - I am somewhat struggling with what files to put a tag line in. Does
>   anyone have any insights on this? Automake forces quite some extra
>   files to exist (AUTHORS, NEWS, ChangeLog, etc).

I just used explicit tags for these (well, for AUTHORS and NEWS).

> - Should directories be added explicitly when using tag-lines?

Yes.

> - When using Automake during development quite a few files are generated
>   among the sourcefiles from running auto{header,make,conf} and
>   libtoolize. Has anyone written some nice regexps to handle this,
>   rather irritating behaviour?

Here is the regexp I'm using for Rhythmbox:

backup
^(.*\.(o|a|so|gmo|la|lo|loT|core|so(\.[[:digit:]]+)*)|core|Makefile.in|Makefile|.*\.tab|\.intltool-merge-cache|rb-marshal.[ch]|intltool-(extract|merge|update).*|Makefile\.in\.in|rhythmbox-.*\.tar.gz|rhythmbox\.pot|POTFILES|stamp-h1|rhythmbox-ui\.xml|authors\.xml|omf_timestamp|rhythmbox-C\.omf\.out|rhythmbox\.spec|rhythmbox\.pc|config\.h|config\.h\.in|rhythmbox|test-cmdline|test-info|test-rhythmdb-(indexing|simple|query)|monkey-media-includes\.h|Rhythmbox-common\.c|Rhythmbox-skels\.c|Rhythmbox-stubs\.c|Rhythmbox\.h|Rhythmbox_Nautilus_Context_Menu.server\.in|Rhythmbox_Nautilus_Context_Menu.server|GNOME_Rhythmbox.server|rhythmbox\.desktop|rhythmbox\.keys|depcomp|.deps|.libs|install-sh|libtool|ltmain.sh|missing|mkinstalldirs|monkey-media-marshal.[ch]|INSTALL|aclocal\.m4|autom4te\.cache|config\.(sub|guess|status|log)|configure|.*(~|\.~[0-9]+~|\.bak|\.orig|\.rej|\.original|\.modified|\.reject))$

...yes, I'm eagerly awaiting the tagging changes :)