Re: XForms: Towards xforms 1.1

From: Angus Leeming (angus.leeming@btopenworld.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 14:57:24 EDT

  • Next message: Angus Leeming: "Re: XForms: Towards xforms 1.1"

    # To subscribers of the xforms list from Angus Leeming <angus.leeming@btopenworld.com> :

    On Thursday 22 May 2003 1:27 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
    > Angus> I think that NT lib/OS2
    > Angus> os2move.cmd gl/canvas.h are all redundant (the latter is almost
    > Angus> identical to glcanvas.h and appears to be a historical
    > Angus> anachronism. It has certainly never been installed).
    > I would not say that the NT and OS2 files are redundant, but rather
    > we do not know what to do with them.

    > Angus> Would anybody object if I removed them?
    > Why not move them to some historical/ subdir?

    What's wrong with CVS/Attic?

    > Angus> The readme files in the top level directory need knocking into
    > Angus> shape. JMarc, can you advise on the GNU-standard way forward?
    > Angus> Ie, what text files are expected to be present and what should
    > Angus> they contain?
    >
    > The automake manual mentions:
    > * The files `INSTALL', `NEWS', `README', `COPYING', `AUTHORS', and
    > `ChangeLog' are required at the topmost directory of the package.
    >
    > In our case, it will be COPYING.LIB, of course. INSTALL can be taken
    > from autoconf.

    Good oh. Thanks for the info.

    > Angus> I realise that there are still one or two bugs pending (I have
    > Angus> a patch from Rouben for the missing fl_lookup_RGBcolor() but am
    > Angus> not sure which file it should reside in...) but think that we
    > Angus> are pretty close to having something that can be released as
    > Angus> xforms 1.1.
    >
    > Do you plan to nuke local.h first, or do it later on?

    Ach! I had forgotten about that. I think that we should kill it now. This
    release is little more than a migration to the autotools so we should do it
    properly.

    Angus

    _________________________________________________
    To unsubscribe, send the message "unsubscribe" to
    xforms-request@bob.usuhs.mil or see
    http://bob.usuhs.mil/mailserv/xforms.html
    XForms Home Page: http://world.std.com/~xforms
    List Archive: http://bob.usuhs.mil/mailserv/list-archives/
    Development: http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=xforms



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu May 22 2003 - 13:52:27 EDT