Re: [PATCH] maint: Allow gnulib's readutmp module to use systemd.

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I think that miss some common
> use-cases for when ./bootstrap is used, including: 1) non-regular
> developers who we want to be able to build things as quickly as possible
> with no additional documentation and git clone + ./bootstrap +
> ./configure should work so they can contribute and write a patch easily,

"Non-regular developers" — that sounds like people who would not know
what to do or where to report, if they encounter breakage. Therefore they
should better wait until we officially "release" the new Python-based
gnulib-tool. They have waited for it for 12 years; they can afford waiting
1 or 2 more months.

> and 2) continous integration building of projects, which is where I
> think we would most likely catch any regressions in gnulib-tool.py the
> quickest, at least for my projects.

I wouldn't burden my continuous integrations builds with that, because
*debugging* failures in continuous integration builds is overly time-
consuming. But if you want to do it, go ahead. You have all you need:
you can simply set the environment variable.

> I think it would be nice to find a method that we can recommend from the
> gnulib project to other projects that wants to opt-in to gnulib-tool.py
> today, so that everyone building these opt-in projects get exposed to
> gnulib-tool.py and we (indirectly) get bug reports about any problems
> early.

No, not today. Better wait until Collin and I tell you that it's ready
for consumption.

There really is no point in having you or anyone else run into trouble,
as long as we know that our (not very large) test suite does not pass.

Bruno