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

[Daiki Ueno]

Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 :-)

Not at all.  Thanks for all the help :-)

>> * 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.

That would be nice, but I'm wondering if 'bootstrap' fits well in the
Gettext source code structure.  Currently 'autogen.sh' calls
"gnulib-tool --import" multiple times to populate Gnulib files under
different sub-directories and calls automake/autoconf/libtoolize for
each sub-directory.  Can 'bootstrap' be used for this slightly uncommon
use-case?  Perhaps an idea might be to have copies of 'bootstrap' in
each sub-directory and call them from the top-level 'bootstrap'.

>   - 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) ;-)

Sure, thanks for reminding.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno