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

[Mathieu Roy]

Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> said:

> 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.

No. 
There's a script that do that, so it's trivial.

> > 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.

If flex is not a GNU package, this is a serious problem and it should
be fixed as soon as possible. No non-gnu package can have a url at
gnu.org and mailing list @gnu.org

RMS clearly expressed that no non-GNU package should have this kind of
url.


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Mathieu Roy
 
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