Re: Patch to dynamically generate AUTHORS, modifications to HACKING

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> On 2002-07-11 at 08:58 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> > > Enclosed is a patch which tidies up the output of --credits,
> > > and dynamically creates AUTHORS. I've also taken the liberty of
> > > making some changes to the HACKING file to bring it a bit
> > > up-to-date.
> > >
> > > Could someone apply it please? I've made a few changes to the
> > > root-level Makefile.am, so if whoever applies it could take a
> > > quick look I'd appreciate it: I'm still learning about this
> > > automake stuff and it's quite possible I haven't got it quite
> > > right (not that it should break anything crucial).
> >
> > Applied.  Looks fine to me, though we shall see how it does in make
> > distcheck later.
>
> Drat. I forgot to say first time round, can AUTHORS be removed
> from CVS please? There doesn't seem much point in keeping an
> out-of-date version in there when it's now automatically
> generated. Sorry to be a pest.

You did mention it, and I have removed it.

-Lars

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