Re: Making GNOME CVS more usable

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>]

Hi Matthia,

Making good use of the standard GNU files is a great way to communicate
the status and plans for a GNOME project.

I think the REQUIRES file would be a great addition, especially if it
included the latest version numbers of those external modules/libraries
that it is known to work with. Perhaps DEPENDS might be a better name?

Colm.

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>OK...
>
>This was proposed a long time ago already, but I thought that we could
>maybe discuss this again.
>
>Every module on GNOME CVS should contain a file, called maybe
>"SYNOPSIS" or such, describing in a short paragraph just what that
>module is and does. I propose also adding a file "REQUIRES",
>describing all other CVS modules and/or external libraries the module
>requires.
>
>Scripts could use these files to create a module catalog and even a
>dependency tree.
>
>I would actually volunteer to create SYNOPSIS and REQUIRES files
>everywhere they do not exist. I'm sure we can find someone to write
>the scripts, too.
>
>What do you think?
>
>mawa
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