Re: [fetchmail-devel] automake migration

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> writes:

> I'm OK with intermediate steps that aren't really tested. I like to be able 
> to see the process.  I'm not one who worries about each committed revision 
> being usable.

The process is virtually inseparable. Splitting out singular changes
doesn't make sense, it's really one large sweep. The po/ changes require
automake, and intl/ is just a cleanup that has to come with the po/
update :-/

> I'll say go ahead and commit it.  You may want to put it on an AUTOMAKE 
> branch, but I'll leave that up to you.   If you put it on the trunk I'd 
> suggest making a PRE_AUTOMAKE tag first.

I'll do. I'll also add a bootstrap.sh first because I found some
peculiarities without.

> Well, the bootstrap script I'm talking about would just codify what you're 
> writing into the README.svn, particularly autoreconf and the options to 
> use with it.  That way it's visible without looking too hard, and is 
> callable from things like makerelease.  If we ever need to change the 
> autoreconf options I only want to change it in one place.

OK.

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