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Re: url's in --help output
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: url's in --help output |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:37:41 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 1/27/2009 10:08 AM:
>>
>> What do you think of this followup, which makes complete sentences, and
>> consistently brackets URLs inside <>?
>
> Since Jim already changed coreutils to use this proposed style, and I just
> committed a patch to autoconf to use this style, I've gone ahead and
> pushed this patch.
Thanks!
Sorry I missed that.
> Also, if you use autoconf.git (will become autoconf 2.64), and your
> package name argument to AC_INIT starts with 'GNU ', then your built
> './configure --help' will automatically include the URL to your package
> and a pointer to the generic GNU help page. You will also have access to
> the new configuration variable AC_PACKAGE_URL (if autoconf guessed the
> wrong URL for your GNU package, then you can provide an explicit override).
Good tip.
I've just inserted this comment in coreutils' system.h:
+ /* FIXME 2010: use AC_PACKAGE_URL once we require autoconf-2.64 */
printf (_("%s home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/%s/>.\n"),
PACKAGE_NAME, PACKAGE);
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output, (continued)
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output, Jim Meyering, 2009/01/23
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output, Simon Josefsson, 2009/01/23
- Re: url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/24
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/24
- Re: url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/24
- Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/27
- Re: url's in --help output, Eric Blake, 2009/01/28
- Re: url's in --help output,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/29
- Re: url's in --help output, Jim Meyering, 2009/01/30
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/30
- Re: url's in --help output, Ralf Wildenhues, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Bruno Haible, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Ben Asselstine, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Bruno Haible, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/31
- Re: url's in --help output, Karl Berry, 2009/01/29