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send-pr, time to borgify it?
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Chad Walstrom |
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send-pr, time to borgify it? |
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Sat, 23 Apr 2005 19:17:18 -0500 |
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Well, the adventure with automake continues. I'm starting to get a
good feel for things. Reading the automake manual requires you to pay
attention, but most of the information I need is there.
One thing I've come to question is whether or not we care to retain
the separate send-pr directory. It appears that send-pr was intended
to operate with or without the presence of pr-edit and query-pr,
falling back to sendmail. It could be distributed to your
customer/client as a generic shell script with no external
dependencies.
Currently, I've retained and updated the configure.ac file in send-pr,
added Makefile.am and dumped Makefile.in (built by automake). We
*could* distribute send-pr independent of GNATS, but *should* we?
(This isn't rhetorical. I would really like to know your opinions.)
Over the years, it appears that the send-pr.texi manual has been fully
integrated into the GNATS manual. Additionally, the emacs *.el file
has been dropped in favor of the gnats.el file. By all indications,
send-pr doesn't appear to exist separately from GNATS at all. If one
wishes to distribute send-pr to a customer, she could tarball up
send-pr, send-pr.1, install-sid, and install-sid.8. Even that is not
highly necessary. The functionality of install-sid (updating a config
file) could be rolled into send-pr.
Hmm... I just did a search against help-gnats for send-pr to see if
this conversation had popped up in the past and found an interesting
post. [1]_ It appears that Yngve had created a manpage for
send-pr.conf back in 2001 that doesn't appear to exist in our CVS
repository. We should probably roll that in, updated for today's use.
;-)
So, what do you folks say? Roll send-pr into GNATS proper and dump
the extra build infrastructure or keep it pseudo-separate?
.. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnats/2001-05/msg00040.html
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