Gnulib for non C programs.

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hi,

For C projects, it is really convenient to use Gnulib as a Git submodule
and let ‘./bootstrap’ do the job.  However in the case of GNU packages
which don't use C, It is a bit overkill to clone a full repository only
for some maintenance scripts and a robust bootstrap script which fetches
.po files.  The alternate option is to check the files in the
repository, sync them manually and maintain a specific bootstrap script.
IMO this is not ideal.

I would like to know if it would be acceptable to modify Gnulib
bootstrap in order to support fetching maintenance scripts using
rsync|wget (like what is done for .po files).  An idea would be to
trigger this behavior when having the '--no-git' option without
'--gnulib-srcdir' set.

What do people think?

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Mathieu Lirzin