Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On 25 Feb 2007, at 18:25, Bruno Haible wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Eventually, when the move to git is complete, doing this will be easy - you just make a branch in your local git copy of gnulib, and base your m4 release off of that branch. git will certainly help in doing so. But

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Eventually, when the move to git is complete, doing this will be easy - > you just make a branch in your local git copy of gnulib, and base your m4 > release off of that branch. git will certainly help in doing so. But what Gary also wants is the knowledge, that we 4 (you, Pau

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, Eric, On 25 Feb 2007, at 15:45, Jim Meyering wrote: Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Eventually, when the move to git is complete, doing this will be easy - you just make a branch in your local git copy of gnulib, and base your m4 release off of that branch. But so far, it

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Eventually, when the move to git is complete, doing this will be easy - > you just make a branch in your local git copy of gnulib, and base your m4 > release off of that branch. > > But so far, it has not been too much of an issue - I have been actively >

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gary V. Vaughan on 2/25/2007 2:22 PM: > > My problem is that I don't know how to pick a snapshot date that > will include recent fixes to modules M4 cares about, but not > destabilizing changes that occured in the same timeframe. > > I'm

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, Thanks for the swift response. On 25 Feb 2007, at 12:48, Jim Meyering wrote: "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For this reason, and for the difficulty of reboot-strapping old releases of gnulib using projects, I find the anti-release model of gnulib somewhat depressing. I

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Jim Meyering
"Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For this reason, and for the difficulty of reboot-strapping old releases > of gnulib using projects, I find the anti-release model of gnulib > somewhat > depressing. It would be nice for gnulib to make occasional feature > freezes, > or release branch

Re: another gnulib update

2007-02-25 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi gnulibers, Eric, On 23 Feb 2007, at 09:05, Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake byu.net> writes: Gnulib just enhanced to guarantee GNU properties, obsoleting several minor headers in the process. Another gnulib update during my 2-week vacation got rid of exit.h. At this point, because