Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

[Paul Eggert]

On 8/25/22 09:53, dmitrii.pasechnik@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> I don't think this is how gnulib is usually used, and that's why regular
> releases are badly needed.

It's how Gnulib developers (who do maintain other packages) usually use 
Gnulib. You're welcome to use releases if you like, though it's not 
recommended. If you want regular releases you can of course create them 
yourselves (again, not recommended by Gnulib developers).


> We are in fact having a fight now over whether to check in the
> iconv pieces produced by gnulib-tool into the source tree, or call gnulib-tool 
> at bootstrap.
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/34152

I haven't looked at that. However, if there's a fight, and if people 
tend to want old Gnulib code even if it's buggy (so long as it's 
"stable"), then you might be better off committing the iconv pieces.