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Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges
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Karl Berry |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges |
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Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:58:23 GMT |
It was added explicitly in Autoconf v2.62-95-g02fa53b for better
plaintext rendering, see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-08/msg00132.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-08/msg00239.html
Well, sigh. "better" here is an aesthetic opinion, not a technical
argument. I don't agree with that judgement, obviously, or the Texinfo
default wouldn't be what it is.
However, I don't really care about the indentation or lack thereof in
the INSTALL file, specifically. I am being annoyingly persistent about
all this because it just seems wrong to me to override defaults in a
shared source file (as opposed to a per-package manual).
I failed to notice Eric's last change in that thread :(.
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-08/msg00241.html)
Before that, I saw that Bruno did the inserting via gnulib's Makefile
(the outcome of which I dislike personally but have no systemic
objection to).
So, I'd like to go back to the gnulib Makefile approach, and eradicate
@firstparagraphindent. Ok with ... whoever cares? Eric?
As for autoconf/INSTALL syncing with gnulib (the point Eric raised which
led to his change), seems to me you could equally argue that
autoconf/INSTALL should match the style of the autoconf manual. Anyway,
you can get either way easily enough. (We could conceivably generate
both flavors of INSTALL in gnulib, which I don't object to, but don't
care about that much either.)
> And, does anyone mind if I remove the @acronym commands from
> install.texi, per our too-long prior discussion?
FWIW, I don't mind, but please do it in upstream Autoconf.
I don't currently have write permission in autoconf. I could give it to
myself :), but would you mind just doing it instead, since it's such a
trivial change? (removing @acronym; BTW, @acronym{GNU} is the only
one.)
Thanks,
k
- [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Jim Meyering, 2011/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Bruno Haible, 2011/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Jim Meyering, 2011/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Karl Berry, 2011/01/01
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/01/02
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges,
Karl Berry <=
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Eric Blake, 2011/01/04
- Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: new rule to update copyright year ranges, Karl Berry, 2011/01/04
- [PATCH] doc: regenerate INSTALL, Eric Blake, 2011/01/04