[RFC] windres' -I option
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 18:59:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:41:15AM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >ChangeLog
>> > Rename the -I option to -J. Introduce -I as synonym for --include-dir.
>>
>> I meant to mention that this is not a valid ChangeLog. Take a look
>> at the entries in the binutils ChangeLog and you'll see that this isn't
>> even close to the correct format.
>
>Fine, here it is again (sorry, you guys have different format from what
>we use in the Wine comunity):
>
>ChangeLog
> Dimitrie O. Paun <dpaun@rogers.com>
> * windres.c: Rename the -I option to -J. Introduce -I as synonym
> for --include-dir. For backwards compatibility also support the
> old -I behaviour, but issue a deprecation warning.
> * doc/binutils.texi: Rename -I to -J. Document the new behaviour
> of the -I option.
>
>Is this better?
Slightly. However, we really want a complete ChangeLog in exactly the format
that you see in the ChangeLog itself, complete with time and date and function
names.
Nick or I can fix this up when it goes in but if you are going to provide
patches in the future, you really need to take another look at the ChangeLog
format.
>>Nick, am I correct in assuming that this is now large enough and
>>complex enough to require an FSF assignment? Sigh.
>
>I think I've signed one many years ago. But also the change is small
>enough, and I herby assign the copyright to the FSF. No need to go
>through the formal hassle for this small of a change I hope.
This is one of the most unpleasant things about being a GNU (or cygwin
for that matter) maintainer. We really need to have all of the
paperwork even for changes that seem small. It's an unfortunate legal
requirement and I realize that it is a big barrier to entry for getting
changes into GNU software.
cgf
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