Re: [Bug-wget] Welcome new Wget Maintainers

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Micah,

Micah Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

>> I think it will be cleaner to use gnulib in the same way as other
>> projects are doing it, not checking in the results but using a
>> "bootstrap" script.  To force a specific revision of gnulib, a git
>> submodule can be used.
>
> Yeah, but then you need to communicate which particular submodule the
> other folks should use (and they all have to maintain git and gnulib now
> too, though I suppose that problem is lessened if wget is moved to git;
> but then there's the issue of Windows support).

AFAIK, now git works under Windows, there are many frontends [1], I
don't know how many of them works well under Windows.

Cheers,
Giuseppe



[1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools