Re: installable gnulib library

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Yes, and actually, that bugs me quite a lot.  While gnulib is still finding
> its feet, that's still acceptable, but at some point (the core interfaces of)
> gnulib really ought to settle down.  And I've moaned on and off that it
> really would be very nice (for the sake of being able to rebuild old tarballs 
> of
> gnulib client releases at least) if gnulib made an occasional formal
> release.

See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/14886 -- it
has the disadvantage of disallowing shallow clones, but it is a way to
fix the "rebuilding old tarballs" part.

Paolo