Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-26 Thread dmitrii . pasechnik
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:02:59PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 8/25/22 18:20, dmitrii.pasech...@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote: > > > > There has been no official gnulib release in like 8 years... > > As far as I'm concerned none of the releases have been "official". > Gnulib simply doesn't work that way.

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-26 Thread dmitrii . pasechnik
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:02:59PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 8/25/22 18:20, dmitrii.pasech...@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote: > > > > There has been no official gnulib release in like 8 years... > > As far as I'm concerned none of the releases have been "official". > Gnulib simply doesn't work that way.

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-26 Thread Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
Bruno Haible writes: > Hi, > > Wesley Viana wrote: >> So I was wondering how to contribute by "packing" gnulib into a brew >> formula. > > Packaging gnulib through a packaging system (such as Debian, pkg, BSD ports, > or brew) is, in the current state of things, not desirable. > > Gnulib is a sou

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-25 Thread Sam James
> On 25 Aug 2022, at 15:53, dmitrii.pasech...@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:43:08AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: >> Wesley Viana wrote: >>> So I was wondering how to contribute by "packing" gnulib into a brew >>> formula. >> >> Packaging gnulib through a packaging system (such

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 8/25/22 18:20, dmitrii.pasech...@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote: There has been no official gnulib release in like 8 years... As far as I'm concerned none of the releases have been "official". Gnulib simply doesn't work that way. If you want something that does work that way, feel free to use Gnulib t

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-25 Thread dmitrii . pasechnik
Hi Paul, On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 02:35:26PM -0500, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 8/25/22 09:53, dmitrii.pasech...@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote: > > I don't think this is how gnulib is usually used, and that's why regular > > releases are badly needed. > > It's how Gnulib developers (who do maintain other packages)

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-25 Thread Paul Eggert
On 8/25/22 09:53, dmitrii.pasech...@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote: I don't think this is how gnulib is usually used, and that's why regular releases are badly needed. It's how Gnulib developers (who do maintain other packages) usually use Gnulib. You're welcome to use releases if you like, though it's not

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2022-08-25 Thread dmitrii . pasechnik
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:43:08AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Wesley Viana wrote: > > So I was wondering how to contribute by "packing" gnulib into a brew > > formula. > > Packaging gnulib through a packaging system (such as Debian, pkg, BSD ports, > or brew) is, in the current state of things,

Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

2018-02-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Wesley Viana wrote: > So I was wondering how to contribute by "packing" gnulib into a brew > formula. Packaging gnulib through a packaging system (such as Debian, pkg, BSD ports, or brew) is, in the current state of things, not desirable. Gnulib is a source code library [1], and, although th

Creating a formula for Homebrew

2018-02-07 Thread Wesley Viana
Hello, I was depending on gnulib for building a project from github. The first thing that I've done was to search on brew (a macOS package manager) for it. Searching on web I've found the gnulib website. So I've followed the instructions as in site, and after cloning the repository, just placed