Re: [PATCH] Make inter-release --version output more useful.

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 10/27/2007 11:38 AM:
>> Now that the generated files are no longer version-controlled,
>> this patch is possible.  FYI, using the resulting version of autoconf
>> to build configure for coreutils, I get this:
>>
>>   $ head -3 configure
>>   #! /bin/sh
>>   # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
>>   # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61a-244-2d95d for GNU coreutils 
>> 6.9-351-1f05c.
>>
>> Any objections?
>
> No objections here, but while you are at it, could you also clean up the
> config directory?  config/announce-gen should live in build-aux (and
> probably needs resyncing with gnulib), and config/prev-version.txt is no
> longer necessary with your scheme, so we no longer need the config directory.

Thanks for the quick feedback.

I suppose we should be using gnulib-tool to pull in
build-aux files, including announce-gen.
For now, I'll just move and update, but in a separate delta,
since that's independent of the version string change.

Also, now that autoconf development is using git, Makefile.maint
can be updated to be more like the one in coreutils.
I.e., don't run cvs commands as part of the release procedure.

Regarding prev-version.txt, I think it's still required, since
it's used in creating the announcement template, and it doesn't
necessarily correspond to the most recent tag.