Re: planning for beta-testing gnulib-tool.py

[Collin Funk]

Hi Darshit,

On 3/14/24 12:12 PM, Darshit Shah wrote:
> I'm following the development of gnulib-tool.py pretty closely. Wget and 
> Wget2 have tried to use the Python version multiple times in the past with 
> varying levels of success. 

I am enjoying working on it, so hopefully this time will be more
successful. :)

> I'll volunteer my time for using GNU Wget and Wget2 as initial beta testers 
> of the new Python based gnulib-tool. 

I am not too familiar with Wget but since I already have Wget2 cloned
I attempted to use gnulib-tool.py to run the bootstrap script:

$ env GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=py ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make all
$ make check

This builds successfully and passes the test cases. However, as
expected the output of gnulib-tool.py does not match gnulib-tool.sh.

I'm still finishing some things before we can recommend it for
testing. But Wget seems like a good project for testing. Do you have
any thoughts Bruno?

Collin