[csw-maintainers] git?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 22.11.2008 um 17:29 schrieb 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.

Very good! Feel free to take over asciidoc too.

>> 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.

Yes, and I couldn't get it to validate even with internet access.


Best regards

   -- Dago