Re: [xmlroff] PangoXSL license?

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

Tony Graham wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld <se...@sy...> writes:
> 
>>Tony Graham wrote:

>>>So how would you propose PangoXSL be bundled with xmlroff?
>>>How would it work for the SRPM package?
>>
>>Good question. if both modules are part of the same parent directory,
>>may be that parent directory could contain some 'meta build system'
>>that simply delegates to the subdirs for simple builds, but does
>>a little more for packaging to avoid two distinct packages to be
>>generated. I acknowledge this getting a bit involved, though...
> 
> 
> I don't know how to run nested autoconf (or whatever the term may be).

I typically set up a 'autogen.sh' script that just runs autoheader, autoconf,
etc. in a batch for all subprojects. A toplevel configure.ac script would
simply call AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.

> It may be possible to copy the essential parts of PangoXSL's configure.ac into
> xmlroff's configure.in and just have xmlroff build PangoXSL.  It would require
> some experimentation.

That may work, too, depending on how much conflicting options there are for
both. If this works, it's even simpler.

>>PS: Did you consider switching to subversion (which sf.net now supports) ?
>>    That would make it easier to modify a project's file system layout.
> 
> 
> If Emacs works as well with subversion as it does with CVS.  If it takes more
> than three keystrokes to check in a file, diff it, or get it's history, or if
> I can't run `ediff-revision' on a file, then it's not worth it for me to
> change.

I think all that works nicely (I'm not quite sure about ediff-revision, which
I haven't used yet myself). The main visible differences are:

* checkins are atomic, i.e. you get a list of all modified files that went
   into a checkin
* file / directory renaming works as expected and transparently
* subversion keeps a copy of the last checked-out version of all files
   on your disk, making it take up more space but allowing operations such
   as 'status' and 'diff' be much faster, and even work when you are offline

> Where are the details for SourceForge's support for subversion?

subversion support on sf.net is 'experimental', though I know a number of
projects that have switched successfully there. (I'v been using subversion
myself for a long time now.)

Here are the docs:

http://sourceforge.net/docs/E09/en/

Regards,
		Stefan