Re: Creating a formula for Homebrew

[Paul Eggert]

On 8/25/22 18:20, dmitrii.pasechnik@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> There has been no official gnulib release in like 8 years...

As far as I'm concerned none of the releases have been "official". 
Gnulib simply doesn't work that way. If you want something that does 
work that way, feel free to use Gnulib to build it. However, I expect 
you'll find it's more trouble than it's worth; I don't recommend it.


> Some people want to follow gnulib guidelines to the letter - even though
> as you admit it's meant mostly for a small range of mostly FSF's
> projects crucially dependent on gnulib,

I didn't say that. Gnulib can be used elsewhere.


> For 3+ years we didn't see a bug while using gettext's m4 macros needed
> for iconv support

This sounds like it's more a gettext issue, so I suggest filing a bug 
report there.


> It's some kind of a weird tradition of jumping through
> hoops to get config.rpath, while config.guess and config.sub are
> provided by automake. :-)

Automake (and Gnulib) are actually downstream from the source for 
config.guess and config.sub. I don't know about config.rpath.


> Imagine gnulib was a C macro library, for which you provided a tool to
> copy select sets of headers into the downstream source trees

I don't have to imagine that, as that's basically what Gnulib is (though 
I would drop the word "macro").