Re: Auto-Generating ChangeLog and AUTHORS for projects in a version tracking system?

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On 10/29/2014 07:36 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) wrote:
>>> If autotools did this automatically, the barrier for using GNU style in
>>> the autotools with a version tracking system would be much smaller: Just
>>> write README and NEWS.
>>
>> autoconf can't do this automatically, but gnulib can.
> 
> Why *can’t* autoconf or automake do this automatically?

Autoconf has never required NEWS, AUTHORS, or ChangeLog - that has
always been automake's domain.  So asking on this list is not the best
place.  It may be worth asking automake if they are willing to automate
some of the steps that coreutils and other projects are currently
getting via gnulib.  On the other hand, since gnulib already does a good
job of it, why should any other project duplicate the efforts?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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