[Savannah-hackers] Re: flex project on savannah?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:35:36AM -0500, W. L. Estes wrote:

> Are you the right person to talk to?

Nope!  =)  address@hidden (cc:'d)

However, generally the right first step is to just go and register your
packages.  I know that flex has traditionally not been a GNU package. 
Is it your plan to continue that?  If you want to be a GNU package as
well, it helps sometimes to talk to rms or someone first - changing a
non-gnu package to a gnu-package seems to be a non-trivial operation
once its in Savannah.

> 1: a cvs mirror of the flex tree which is avaialble for anonymous
> checkout

We have nightly checkouts tarballed at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/cvs/ for
packages that request it.

If you're using automake, I've been thinking about setting up a similar
sort of deal that runs 'make dist' with a date on it so that if (like
me) you don't include generated files in CVS, you still have fully
working snapshots.

Also for GNU apps, I'm hoping to someday provide tinderbox-like
functionality.

> 2: space to put beta releases and official releases of flex

I don't know how this works for non-GNU apps.

> 3: a small web page describing flex and such.

http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/ already exists, and you'll be able to
edit it through Savannah.

Hope this helps!

Tks,
Jeff Bailey