Paul Eggert wrote:
> See, for example:
>
> https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/clonable-vs-cloneable
Wow, that's a long writeup!
> which says both "Cloneable is a misspelling of the word clonable, which
> refers to an object that can be cloned or copied in its entirety." and
> "'Cloneable,' on the other hand, is the correct spelling and is widely
> accepted in both British and American English." (!)
I directly jumped to the summary table which specifically talks about
software development, as opposed to e.g. biotechnology.
> In this particular context the word doesn't add enough useful info to be
> worth the spelling discordance, so I removed it by installing the attached.
Hmm, this is not good either.
The gnulib repository has 4 URLs, namely
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git -- 'git clone' fails
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/ -- 'git clone' fails
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git -- 'git clone' ok
ssh://u...@git.savannah.gnu.org/srv/git/gnulib -- 'git clone' ok
For the purposes of 'bootstrap', which uses git commands, only the last two
work. How do we discourage / prevent the user from setting GNULIB_URL to
one among the first two? If you don't want to see the word "cloneable",
we need another way.
The fourth one works only for a small set of people. Therefore we can
give the third one as example; incidentally, it's also the default.
Done through the patch below.
Bruno
>From 32ac0e0018cc5a3a4ae53c6c79f551a4463b35a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:34:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: Try to prevent the user from setting GNULIB_URL to
a wrong value.
* top/bootstrap-funclib.sh: Explain GNULIB_URL better.
* top/bootstrap: Likewise.
* build-aux/bootstrap: Likewise.
---
build-aux/bootstrap | 10 +++++++---
top/bootstrap | 6 ++++--
top/bootstrap-funclib.sh | 6 ++++--
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index e44b502249..979b3af62e 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
# Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
-scriptversion=2023-08-29.20; # UTC
+scriptversion=2023-08-29.21; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -659,7 +659,9 @@ Optional environment variables:
Use this if you already have gnulib sources
and history on your machine, and do not want
to waste your bandwidth downloading them again.
- GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository.
+ GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository. The default is
+ $default_gnulib_url,
+ which is Gnulib's upstream repository.
Options:
--bootstrap-sync if this bootstrap script is not identical to
@@ -1347,7 +1349,9 @@ Optional environment variables:
have gnulib sources on your machine, and
do not want to waste your bandwidth downloading
them again.
- GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository.
+ GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository. The default is
+ $default_gnulib_url,
+ which is Gnulib's upstream repository.
Options:
diff --git a/top/bootstrap b/top/bootstrap
index f61299a513..6c170d35de 100755
--- a/top/bootstrap
+++ b/top/bootstrap
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#! /bin/sh
# Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
-scriptversion=2023-08-29.20; # UTC
+scriptversion=2023-08-29.21; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ Optional environment variables:
have gnulib sources on your machine, and
do not want to waste your bandwidth downloading
them again.
- GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository.
+ GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository. The default is
+ $default_gnulib_url,
+ which is Gnulib's upstream repository.
Options:
diff --git a/top/bootstrap-funclib.sh b/top/bootstrap-funclib.sh
index 496beea45c..54deea66a2 100644
--- a/top/bootstrap-funclib.sh
+++ b/top/bootstrap-funclib.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# A library of shell functions for autopull.sh, autogen.sh, and bootstrap.
-scriptlibversion=2023-08-29.20; # UTC
+scriptlibversion=2023-08-29.21; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -622,7 +622,9 @@ Optional environment variables:
Use this if you already have gnulib sources
and history on your machine, and do not want
to waste your bandwidth downloading them again.
- GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository.
+ GNULIB_URL URL of the gnulib repository. The default is
+ $default_gnulib_url,
+ which is Gnulib's upstream repository.
Options:
--bootstrap-sync if this bootstrap script is not identical to
--
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