Re: adding bootstrap and bootstrap.conf

[Bruno Haible]

Eric Blake wrote:
> > Find attached a patch that implements the first part of it. The
> > second part will be the handling of CLEANFILES and MOSTLYCLEANFILES.
> 
> No attachment, but I see you applied the patch?

Indeed, the attachment got lost when I had to resend the mail, due to
earlier mail problems. You find the patch at
  
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=9b370b93b9cd9b4599429cfe42b4667ff7e89be9

> Also, I would prefer if
> the updated ignore file were maintained in sorted order, rather than
> appending new entries at the bottom.

And other people have some hand-written entries at the top of the file and
don't want the file to be sorted by a tool.

> Hmm, this means that .{cvs,git}ignore are now generated.  And the policy
> of keeping generated files out of revision control becomes awkward

I would keep .cvsignore and .gitignore under revision control. gnulib-tool
is smart enough to change nothing if nothing needs to be changed; so it's
the same process as when the lead developer modifies the files by hand,
only faster.

Let's see in the next few weeks how it works out...

Bruno