[Bug-gnulib] Re: getopt.c does not work

[Jeff Bailey]

Adding bug-gnulib to the cc: list.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:04:26PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > gnulib is now maintained completely separately from glibc.  Where
> > appropriate, we try to merge changes back into glibc because it doesn't
> > makes sense to diverge the sources too much.

> If this is your plan (which sounds like a poor change of plan to me), then
> we might as well remove all the portability cruft from the glibc sources.
> The past plan was always that the sources would remain identical aside from
> the license text.  It seems much more sane to have the gnulib maintainers
> send us changes to merge into the glibc version and keep that the sole
> canonical source, than to do separate maintenance.

I want to make sure I'm not saying anything different than is actually
happening in reality.  I would love to see all of our changes wind up
back in glibc.

We haven't got any Official Policy(tm) yet for gnulib and merging back
into glibc. I came up with the idea for gnulib because 1) There was no
good central source for the files I needed in lib/ in my projects. 2)
Glibc source files rarely worked without a fair amount of work the
separate them out 3) libiberty wasn't willing to be hosted in a separate
repository 4) libit (by François Pinard) wasn't willing to live in GNU
CVS.  So nothing in there established any sort of relationship back to
glibc.

What do other folks on bug-gnulib think is best?

tks,
Jeff Bailey