Re: Please include the local gnulib modules in releases

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/10/2024 01:39, Michael Pratt wrote:
> In other words, adding the "gl" directory from source to EXTRA_DIST or however 
> you all would do it,
> for those who wish to use the bootstrap script from a release, even though it 
> is not recommended,
> whether it is a modification of those local modules, or something else in a 
> local gnulib,
> so that extra steps to include them are not required from a release tarball.

Well maybe, but then we'd have two copies of these files in the release tarball.
Given the bootstrap is really only applicable from a dev checkout,
and gnulib needs to be accessed separately anyway,
would it make more sense to access the coreutils git repos directly?
I.e. using git, or if you needed tarballs sync'd to a release point
accessing initially from https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tags for e.g.

cheers,
Pádraig