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Re: self-downloading gnulib-tool
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: self-downloading gnulib-tool |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:45:04 +0200 |
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Ian Beckwith wrote:
> 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).
The downloading mechanism should IMO be part of Debian, not gnulib
upstream, because it involves
- detection of presence/absence of internet connection,
- choice of mirror,
- verification of the integrity of the download.
Whether you present it as a gnulib-tool option, or provide a separate
script for doing that, I don't have an opinion about that.
Bruno