Re: [bug-gettext] plans for a new release

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 06/06/2013 04:30 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi Daiki.  Hope you won't mind some suggestions from a non-contributor;
anyway, since you can easily ignore such suggestions, I think there is
no problem in brining them up :-)

> Six months passed after 0.18.2 release and we've got a few major
> features and several bug fixes.  I think it's a good time to think about
> a new release.
> 
> A tentative schedule is to release it on the first week of July,
> preceded by sending the POT files to translators in this month.
> 
> Remaining tasks which would be "nice to have" are:
> 
> [SNIP]
>
> * git submodule migration
>   Although this won't affect the installed system, it will simplify the
>   release procedure a bit.
>
+1 from me here, absolutely

And once that is done, you might also want to try to have the
bootstrapping process delegate some more work to the well-tested
'bootstrap' script that is provided by gnulib.

Some other random issues I noticed perusing the 'autogen.sh' script:

  - The 'build-aux/fixaclocal' script is invoked throughout, but
    the comments in that script state that it's only required with
    aclocal from Automake 1.10, while the rest of the build
    infrastructure assumes Automake >= 1.11.

  - Cosmetic issue: in the heading comments, "1.13" is not reported
    among the supported Automake versions.

Finally, it would also be nice to update all the Gettext code to use
$(MKDIR_P) instead of the deprecated $(mkdir_p) ;-)

Thanks,
  Stefano