Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/19/2009 11:34 AM, Dan Winship wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Cons:
> >
> >    - Have to modify autogen.sh to create an empty ChangeLog, or pass the
> > "foreign" flag to automake
>
> We really ought to be passing "foreign" anyway. No one benefits from
> having people be forced to create 0-length README files. (And if we want
> to say "but people should have useful README files", then we should
> create our own "GNOME module standards" rather than accidentally picking
> up the GNU ones, and then we should actually enforce them.)

I actually like the GNU standards.  A one-line README is much better than no 
README.  The only bit that has become really limiting is warning on 
non-portable Makefile's.

behdad

> -- Dan