Re: guile-gnome-glib 2.3.993

[Andy Wingo]

Hey Kevin,

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 07:39 +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > glib/NEWS got a big update. I tried to make it look like Guile's NEWS;
> > it's a helpful format.
> 
> I guess it comes from emacs, but I find it a bit verbose

Thinking about this a bit, you're right. The long format is more
appropriate for long release cycles. I'll see about doing some
distillation on NEWS.

> > docs/ is now in the tarball. Whoops!
> 
> Automake can generate version.texi for you, if you just want package
> version and date, when you're ready to have it handle the texis.

Ah, nice tip. Fixed.

> > Still TODO: suitable READMEs in the toplevel pkg directory, explaining
> > how the source is laid out (i.e., independent packages in subdirs).
> 
> Don't forget copyright/license notices in all files.

Gaaaah. Being GNU == a lot of non-hacking work!

Cheers,
-- 
Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
http://ambient.2y.net/wingo/