Re: License pedantry

[Ian Beckwith]

Hi,

Sorry about the delay replying.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:03:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Our argument has been that gnulib is for developers, and probably should
> not be distributed as a package.  Read gnulib-intro.texi for why we think
> that snapshots of gnulib are counter-productive.
>

um, oh.

For what it's worth, the package does have users, and I think its
useful to have it integrated with the system so things like
documentation are available through the usual mechanisms.

Hopefully the stable-snapshot thing in my other mail will placate you.

There is a wishlist bug report in debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522187

suggesting an additional installer-style package for gnulib that
downloads the latest version direct from the git repo.

It occurs to me that it might be better to have as an option to
gnulib-tool, maybe --git-clone or something along those lines, with
maybe an option to set up a cron job to pull from the master repo (bad
idea if they are going to hack on gnulib itself, but I assume most
people won't).

Do you think this is worth doing?

Ian.

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