[csw-maintainers] Anyone successfully downloaded gnulib? Download problems here.

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Sebastian,

Am 01.06.2009 um 12:29 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
> Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>> has anyone successfully cloned the gnulib git repository? When i  
>> try to
>> follow the download instructions from their homepage [1] the clone
>> operation times out.
>
> Ok, never mind, i just noticed the news on their front page [1]. A
> couple of services is down, git is one of them.
>
> Has anyone ever thought of packaging gnulib so that we have it  
> centrally
> available on the buildfarm?

gnulib is not meant to be packaged. The projects needing them should
include the functionality they actually need:

> Gnulib takes a different approach. Its components are intended to be
> shared at the source level, rather than being a library that gets  
> built,
> installed, and linked against. Thus, there is no distribution tarball;
> the idea is to copy files from Gnulib into your own source tree.


Best regards

   -- Dago