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

[Sebastian Kayser]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> 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.

That's exactly what i was aiming at. Having all the source files handy
in one location (package) gives our maintainers instant access to them.
  No hassle cloning non-available git repositories.

Debian has a gnulib package also. I wonder why, but heck, when even they
as a GNU platform have one we should have one too ;)

Sebastian