Re: Proposed new file for CVS: DISTRIBUTORS [bug-grep]

[Julian Foad]

Charles Levert wrote:
> I propose adding this new file to CVS.
[Information for Grep developers about known distributions of Grep.]

This is a useful bit of information for us developers, so I would like to add 
this file somewhere.

However, it should not go into the source distribution (tar ball) because that 
would create a circular reference that could never be kept up to date. 
Therefore it needs either to be specifically excluded from being packaged by 
"make dist", or it needs to go somewhere else:

  a separate module in CVS;
  an issue in the issue tracker;
  a web page that we developers can update;
  a Wiki page.

This can't be the only meta-data that we keep; I imagine there must already be 
something that can serve as a precedent.

- Julian