Re: Patch for --credits: please apply (was: Re: Adding a file toCVS?) (fwd)

[Andrew Ferrier <andrew junk new-destiny co uk>]

Oops, meant to send this to the list...

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OK, what I'm doing was Cyrille's good idea. It's documented
in #86375.

Basically, the idea is:

app/authors.h is the master list of contributors now (split
into authors/documentors).

The about box and --credits are generated from this (so, yes
they are hardcoded in at compile time). This is what the patch
I just submitted does.

I intend to submit another one which contains modifications to
the makefile stuff to auto generate AUTHORS from dia --credits.
But this will take me a while I think to learn all the automake
stuff. Hence why I'm submitting this patch first. I'd also like
the website credits to be auto-generated via a similar
mechanism if possible.

And whilst you may have 'no say' (I doubt this very much!) I'm
always willing to listen to criticism. I'm trying to help out
w/ Dia but am building up slowly and there's probably lots of
stuff I'm missing!

Cheers,
Andrew.

On 2002-07-05 at 16:42 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:

> From: Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
> To: Andrew Ferrier <andrew.junk@new-destiny.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:42:11 +0100 (IST)
> Subject: Re: Patch for --credits: please apply (was: Re: Adding a file to
>     CVS?)
>
>
> Andrew
> i am wondering about this new system
>
> will it load the authors file at runtime?
> or will it embed it at compile time (which is what i hope you are doing
> although i dont have much say in the matter).
>
> just asking
>
> Sincerely
> Alan
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:25:56 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Andrew Ferrier <andrew.junk@new-destiny.co.uk>
> > Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> > To: dia-list@gnome.org
> > Subject: Patch for --credits: please apply (was: Re: Adding a file to
> >     CVS?)
> >
> > On 2002-07-05 at 09:40 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, please do so.  I think Cyrille is wrong here -- you
> > > can't add files to read-only repositories, the best I know.
> > >
> > > -Lars
> >
> > Yes, sorry, Cyrille, but I think you're wrong about that too
> > <grin> --- certainly regular 'cvs add' doesn't seem to work,
> > unless there is some magic option.
>
>
>
>

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