[Savannah-register-public] [task #4170] Submission of GNU source installer

[Claudio Fontana]

Follow-up Comment #3, task #4170 (project administration):

Hello,

I have updated the address in the source and replaced the broken license file
with a verbatim copy of the GPL (the program itself is also updated).

Before you consider including this program in Savannah, however, I would like
the program itself to be reviewed. I do not want to spend my and other
people's time developing on a project no one cares about. I have written this
program for my girlfriend's birthday, and she said it was nice, but she's a
bit biased I guess :) 

The assumption is: by adopting this program, new GNU/Linux users have an easy
way to approach source releases, install packages in a
distribution-independent way, and maybe learn something in the way.

Since the program works best with packages prepared with the autotools, if
this program becomes widespread enough, this could also further help
autotools adoption, and could be an incentive for developers to build good
packages (honouring DESTDIR in their install hooks for example)

Please tell me what you think.

CLaudio



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