Hi, For C projects, it is really convenient to use Gnulib as a Git submodule and let ‘./bootstrap’ do the job. However in the case of GNU packages which don't use C, It is a bit overkill to clone a full repository only for some maintenance scripts and a robust bootstrap script which fetches .po files. The alternate option is to check the files in the repository, sync them manually and maintain a specific bootstrap script. IMO this is not ideal.
I would like to know if it would be acceptable to modify Gnulib bootstrap in order to support fetching maintenance scripts using rsync|wget (like what is done for .po files). An idea would be to trigger this behavior when having the '--no-git' option without '--gnulib-srcdir' set. What do people think? -- Mathieu Lirzin
