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Re: autopoint 0.16.1 depends on CVS
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: autopoint 0.16.1 depends on CVS |
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Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:26:13 +0200 |
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Hello,
Dennis Schridde wrote:
> autopoint depends on CVS being installed
Yes. To document this better, I'm applying the appended patch.
> apparently to download the sourcecode, even if the correct version of
> gettext is installed.
This use of cvs downloads nothing; it only extracts the right version of the
gettext infrastructure from an archive (installed in
$prefix/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz).
> Maybe you want to check for cvs only when the installed gettext version
> is not sufficient.
This is not worth the coding and testing effort, IMO. Just install cvs.
> And maybe you want to provide downloading of a tarball as an alternative?
> wget, tar and gzip are probably more common than cvs.
autopoint downloads nothing. I don't think a program should make network
connections if the user did not ask for it and doesn't expect it.
Bruno
2007-04-02 Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
* DEPENDENCIES: Mention dependency towards cvs.
Reported by Dennis Schridde <address@hidden>.
*** DEPENDENCIES 23 Dec 2006 15:56:55 -0000 1.2
--- DEPENDENCIES 2 Apr 2007 22:17:58 -0000
***************
*** 95,97 ****
--- 95,108 ----
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libcroco/0.6/
+ If it is installed in a nonstandard directory, pass the option
--with-libcroco-0.6-prefix=DIR to 'configure'.
+
+ The following packages should be installed when GNU gettext is installed:
+
+ * CVS 1.11 or newer
+ + Recommended.
+ Needed by the 'autopoint' program.
+ + Homepage:
+ http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
+ http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
+ + Download:
+ http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/