[csw-maintainers] git?

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Sat Nov 22 11:06:28 -0500 2008:

> I did a start at trunk/devel/git. However, you need asciidoc for
> that. I packaged 8.2.5 some time ago but the package seems to
> have gotten lost during the split. I'll repackage 8.2.7 ASAP
> and keep you informed.

I started on this package yesterday too.  I installed it locally to
build git, but figured a package is better so that the GAR
description was not dependent on my 'special' PATH.  I'm almost done
writing a configure.ac and Makefile.in for it (which I'll kick
upstream) so that building the package is doable.

> If I recall correctly there were dependencies on XML catalogs
> which I was unable to fix.

I believe that the git folks did some workaround so that the 8.x
series could be used to build the docs for git.  This was the source
of my proxy question yesterday too.  The git build currently stops
because one of the xml/xslt tools can't pull down a file from
sourceforge to validate the xml domain.

> Anyway, feel free to take it over.

Sure, I can do that.  Maybe I'll have better luck with this than with
ruby! :)  [I've kicked a report up to ruby-core at ruby-lang, but haven't
gotten any nibbles yet.  I did discover that solaris 8 is, at best,
minimally supported only because it's a POSIX environment...]

> Best maintainers are the ones who actually use their packages :-)

Eating ones own dogfood is always a good thing.

Have a good weekend.

-Ben
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