Re: copyright notice for regexprops-generic.texi

[James Youngman]

On Jan 13, 2007 2:43 PM, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8/15/06, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > For lack of a better solution I installed this into regexprops-generic.texi.
> > After looking at the findutils sources I don't see how the file is
> > generated automatically -- perhaps some by-hand processing is
> > always done?
>
> In gnulib, yes.  The file originates in findutils, where it is
> automatically generated from  gnulib's regex.h header file by the code
> in findutils/lib/regexprops.c.

I now notice that unfortunately the content of regexprops-generic.texi
has significantly diverged from the (one time) original source, which
is automatically generated by lib/regexprops.c in findutils.   This
leaves me with a headache; which of the changes were intended to fix
defects in the documentation (and thus need feeding 'upstream' back
into findutils) and which changes are mainly editorial or intended to
adapt the file for use in other projects?

I find this tangle a bit frustrating since it's this kind of
difficulty that gnulib exists to prevent.   Does anybody have ideas
about how we could improve the situation ?   That is, how can we make
fixing this a once-only effort?

Thanks,
James.