From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>,
20403@debbugs.gnu.org,
Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=VbGgaXcOOK=7rUSx4o7nzzu496D6FALR+3_8FGEcxhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cdlft0en8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
> The build process could construct it based on the version number.
That makes sense to me. When creating source distribution tarballs,
the file could simpy be copied or moved into place in case there are
problems with symlinks on this or that platform (I guess MS-Windows?).
Is there any reason not to do this?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-01 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 6:14 bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it) Ulrich Windl
2019-09-30 0:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-30 20:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-31 9:56 ` Phil Sainty
2019-10-31 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 16:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-31 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-31 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2019-10-31 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-01 5:02 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-01 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-11 19:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-04 7:16 ` bug#20403: Antw: " Ulrich Windl
2019-11-04 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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