Re: Neglected source tree.

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello there,
>
> which year do you intend to maintain Shishi properly?
> You claimed version 1.0.*, so please accept the duty
> to maintain this source, in preference to developing
> other material from scratch. As long as you enforce
>
>    ### configure.ac
>
>    AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10 -Wall -Werror -Wno-override])
>
> with "-Werror", you are responsible for being attentative
> enough to adapt to recent tool changes.

Hi.  I have dropped -Werror in git now.

> automake-1.12 has made changes targetting AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
> over AM_PROG_MKDIR_P, and separately become dependent on
> AM_PROG_AR.
>
> The former issue needs updated source from GNUlib as long
> as "-Werror" is in use, and was attended to by GNUlib in
> December, 2012. Observe also that AM_PROG_MKDIR_P will be
> made obsolete in automake-1.14.
>
> The issue with AM_PROG_AR is resolved by the patch below.

Thanks, applied.

> By the way, when do you intend to look into the issues with
> getsubopt() and res_query() needed for portability to non-Glibc,
> for which I have already submitted tried and tested patches?

I'll take a look now.

Btw, I have given you commit rights on savannah to the Shishi project.
Feel free to install simple fixes when you find them.  We should aim to
get a maintenance 1.0.2 out relatively soon, to get your fixes out
there, so please don't introduce anything unstable or add any new
features in the next month at least.

/Simon