Re: git-version-gen w/o git

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/29/2012 11:12 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: This seems to be stalled because of a misconception. Can I please get a second opinion? Please? I'm afraid I don't understand the problem well enough to offer an opinion -- maybe it's because I don't understand the desire to do maintenance without git

Re: [PATCH] gettext: avoid obsolete macro AM_PROG_MKDIR_P

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/22/2012 09:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: if it passes your own tests, I'd go ahead and push it. OK, thanks, I did that.

Re: gnulib maintainer housekeeping

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/23/2012 12:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: None of these have seen a huge amount of work, but I can still follow the development and approve patches. OK, then we should leave the module maintainer list unchanged. Thanks.

Re: isatty fails on Windows 8

2012-12-23 Thread Michael Goffioul
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:02:03 -0500 > > From: Michael Goffioul > > > > We've got a bug report in octave [1] that seems to indicate that gnulib's > > replacement of isatty is incorrect on Windows 8 (it's fine up to Windows > > 7). Lookin

Re: isatty fails on Windows 8

2012-12-23 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:02:03 -0500 > From: Michael Goffioul > > We've got a bug report in octave [1] that seems to indicate that gnulib's > replacement of isatty is incorrect on Windows 8 (it's fine up to Windows > 7). Looking at the implementation, it first calls the Windows _isatty > versi

Re: isatty fails on Windows 8

2012-12-23 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 21/12/2012 01:02, Michael Goffioul ha scritto: > Hi, > > We've got a bug report in octave [1] that seems to indicate that > gnulib's replacement of isatty is incorrect on Windows 8 (it's fine up > to Windows 7). Looking at the implementation, it first calls the Windows > _isatty version, then c

Re: gnulib maintainer housekeeping

2012-12-23 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 23/12/2012 18:48, Paul Eggert ha scritto: > A bit of housekeeping: you're listed as maintainer on > several gnulib modules, listed below. If you're > not contributing any more, I assume we should remove > your name. Can you suggest replacements? The modules > I'm most worried about are the on

gnulib maintainer housekeeping

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Eggert
A bit of housekeeping: you're listed as maintainer on several gnulib modules, listed below. If you're not contributing any more, I assume we should remove your name. Can you suggest replacements? The modules I'm most worried about are the ones you're listed as sole maintainer for. Thanks. acc

Thanks for helping with GNU

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Thank you for the good work you put into the GNU project for all those years. Not only is it appreciated, it will live on. I am sorry to see you leave the project, and hope that its problems can be fixed.

Re: cloning gnulib fails

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks for mentioning that; I filed a bug report at: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?108214

cloning gnulib fails

2012-12-23 Thread Daniel J Sebald
Hello gnulib maintainers, It has come to the attention of Octave users that cloning the gnulib repository fails for some users, possibly because of firewall issues. The command suggested here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ results in a connection reset on the server side of things: [g