Re: cvs log: converted m4 sources to canonical format

[Guido Draheim]

Peter Simons wrote:
> Guido Draheim writes:
> 
>  >> The submitters can write into [the @category] field
>  >> whatever they want, or they can just leave it blank.
>  >> What counts is what the maintainer who commits the macro
>  >> into CVS writes into that field. Getting that stuff
>  >> right is our job [...].
> 
>  > This is bogus - the repository file should be no
>  > different from the download file which should be no
>  > different from submission file [...].
> 
> So you are saying when someone submits a macro and adds a
> line saying
> 
>   @category Evil Space Nazis Destroyed Atlantis
> 
> into the documentation, then we should distribute it that
> way?

No, I did not say that. If it does not belong to a
category you want then do not redistribute it. Ask
the submitter (!) to edit the macro - or edit the
macro and send it back to the submitter to show it.
Just make it so that everyone has the same - on
download, at the submitter, in the repository cvs.

> 
> I think it would be better to edit it to say
> 
>   @category Automake
> 
> instead -- at least if the submitted macro belongs into that
> category.
> 
> The idea behind categories in the Macro Archive is that the
> categorization helps the user, you know. Categories weren't
> added so that you can publish your favorite Haiku on the
> index page.
> 

That hurts, please, just don't play stupid - the target was:
  Allowed @category syntax items in stored macro
                 =identical=
  Visible header names in the website listing

Question: Is there _any_ reason why you want them not to be
          identical? Why is it "Misc" in the stored macro
          instead of "Miscellaneous", why is it "C" instead
          of "C Support"?

aaarggh,
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