Re: Poject bootstraping script in Developer Guide

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu> wrote:
> First of all, for the record or consideration, I note that I
> really like the idea of having the developer's guide, but want to
> note that they should be there to remind important things, not to
> force developers.

<personal note> I agree fully </personal> :-)  But I also
would mention that all the issues noted in the guide are to be
addressed (implemented in some manner) and not merely remembered :-)

>   - bootstrap IS the prefered way.  I'm not sure anyone has ever
> read the related part of the Autotools book, it's here:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_43.html

'bootstrap' sounds fine to me.  That way you are consistent across
_all_ projects.
 
>   * Well, many people like RCS headers, that doesn't look bad,
> but I don't think it should be a mandatory thing either.

This I think I'd take-up issue with.  We need to see at a min
the '$Id$' tag on the file so that its version is noted.  All of
arabeyes' scripts/files have a more elaborate header that we use
as a template.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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