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Re: gnupload improvements


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: gnupload improvements
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:04:54 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hi Karl, Sergey,

thanks for the feedback!

* Karl Berry wrote on Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:55:20PM CET:
>     Hmm, then I guess I don't like those options either; but also I don't
>     like backward incompatibilities.  Sigh.
> 
> Since gnupload is only used by GNU maintainers, I do not consider
> backward compatibility as critical as with normal programs.
> 
> I don't feel strongly about --symlink arg parsing.  I've never created a
> symlink yet on ftp.gnu.org, let alone wanted to create more than one at
> a time.
> 
>     Yes I understand that.  I don't think it would have needed two different
>     options for that, though.
> 
> It needs to be two options because the FSF sysadmins implemented two
> different directives.  There's no feasible way to know whether something
> is a symlink or a file on the machine running gnupload.

Hmm, OK.

>     Bike shedding question: .gnupload or .gnuploadrc?
> 
> I vote for ...rc.

* Sergey Poznyakoff wrote on Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:19:09AM CET:
> 
> Well, I'd be OK with either of them.

I have a slight preference for the 'rc' suffix, too, so I've pushed this
change.

Thanks,
Ralf

        * lib/gnupload: Change conffile name to `.gnuploadrc'.

diff --git a/lib/gnupload b/lib/gnupload
index a1add23..7c34784 100755
--- a/lib/gnupload
+++ b/lib/gnupload
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # Sign files and upload them.
 
-scriptversion=2009-03-04.21
+scriptversion=2009-03-05.20
 
 # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009  Free Software Foundation
 #
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ scriptversion=2009-03-04.21
 set -e
 
 GPG='gpg --batch --no-tty'
-conffile=.gnupload
+conffile=.gnuploadrc
 to=
 dry_run=false
 symlink_files=




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