cleaning up xfce-dev-tools

Nick Schermer nick at xfce.org
Tue May 8 15:27:16 CEST 2012


On 2012-05-08 15:02, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I feel an urgent need to clean up xfce-dev-tools a bit and get
> completely rid of the .{ac,in}.in. Only use .ac (or .in).
>
> I could probably help with cleaning things up but I need to know:
> How do you guys want it to work?
>
> I know you want git version string baked into the version string
> without editing configure.ac every commit and I know you want the
> LINGUAS stuff be dynamic and I have some ideas.
>
> Any suggestions for an API? (we need be backwards compat so we dont
> break existing configure.in.in)
>
> While here, maybe replace XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE with PKG_CHECK_MODULE too
> (or reimplement XDT_CHECK_PACKAGE to use PKG_CHECK_MODULE)?

Is there a case where the released packages are broken?

Nick


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