Re: PangoXSL license?

Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> writes:
> Tony Graham wrote:
>> Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> 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.

Cool.  I didn't know AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS existed, but it makes sense that it
does.

>> 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.

I think that AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS would make it easier to keep the two separate.

>>>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:

ediff-revision can be very useful.

> * 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/

Thanks.  I've read that, and I'm now reading "Subversion for CVS Users" at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/apa.html

There's also hope for Emacs.  See
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SubVersion

I think I'll try a local SubVersion project before switching xmlroff (or
PangoXSL).

Regards,


Tony.



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