[bug-inetutils] Re: gnulib

[Simon Josefsson]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> Does anyone remeber why we added gnulib to the CVS tree?  I suspect
> that I had something to do with that...  But right now I'm really
> reconsidering why we added the stuff, it is a pain keeping it updated.
> We don't keep generated files anyway in the CVS repo, so it would make
> sense to remove all gnulib stuff, if we can find a easy way to
> update/generate all the files.
>
> Any thoughts on this?  Does anyone object to removing gnulib if it is
> easy to regenerate it all running a script like autogen.sh?

Gnulib isn't forward or backwards compatible with itself, so trying to
build a project using gnulib pretty much requires everyone to know
which gnulib revisions were used.  There is no infrastructure to solve
that problem easily today, therefor at least all project that I'm
familiar with, that uses gnulib, do commit the gnulib files into CVS.
This makes sure everyone use the same gnulib code that the code was
written for.

/Simon