Re: Gnulib for non C programs.

[Mike Frysinger]

On 14 Jan 2016 00:59, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> 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?

is it really that big of a problem to fetch 10MiB of data ?
$ git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git
Cloning into 'gnulib'...
remote: Counting objects: 9369, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8310/8310), done.
remote: Total 9369 (delta 5065), reused 2198 (delta 1038)
Receiving objects: 100% (9369/9369), 7.56 MiB | 1.94 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (5065/5065), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
$ cd gnulib
$ du -s -h .git
8.8M    .git
$ du -s -h .
69M
-mike

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