Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On 28 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> I'm wondering what purpose AC_PREREQ (etc) really >>> serves if you're not using them to encode the versions of the >>> autotools that are >>> required to bootstrap a package in the way

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 16:28, Jim Meyering wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> I'm wondering what purpose AC_PREREQ (etc) really >> serves if you're not using them to encode the versions of the autotools that >> are >> required to bootstrap a package in the way expected by the maintainers. >

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> Hi Jim, >>> >>> On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>>Reuben Thomas wrote: >>> >>>Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. >>> >>>On 22 December 2011 19:54,

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> Hi Jim, >>> >>> On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> >>>Reuben Thomas wrote: >>> >>>Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. >>> >>>On 22 Decembe

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 28 Jan 2012, at 15:27, Jim Meyering wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> >> On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >>Reuben Thomas wrote: >> >>Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. >> >>On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas wrote:

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Reuben Thomas wrote: > > Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. > > On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > -* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf,

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-27 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On 28 ม.ค. 2012, at 1:21, Jim Meyering wrote: > Reuben Thomas wrote: >> Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. >> >> On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: >>> -* Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, etc. >>> - are in your PATH. See the buildreq lis

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Reuben Thomas wrote: > Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. > > On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting >> problems and also streamline some of the steps. ... >> >> From 1949b5fc095e746bac4ab90c30b373b79aa6507d

Re: Patches to README-release

2012-01-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
Ping? The patches still apply cleanly to HEAD. On 22 December 2011 19:54, Reuben Thomas wrote: > A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting > problems and also streamline some of the steps. > > From a7fef6319b09420f26fc6d2a508322b7c21b7997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From:

Patches to README-release

2011-12-22 Thread Reuben Thomas
A series of patches that attempt to improve a few minor formatting problems and also streamline some of the steps. >From a7fef6319b09420f26fc6d2a508322b7c21b7997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reuben Thomas Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:40:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Improvements to README-release