From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:49:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] tig-0.10
Message-ID: <7vlk4hbp64.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080317102318.GA6830@diku.dk>

Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote Mon, Mar 17, 2008:
>> Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> writes:
>> 
>> > ... Building the documentation
>> > (sadly?) now depends on DocBook XSL 1.72 to reduce the number of
>> > accumulated AsciiDoc and XSL hacks.
>> 
>> Well, I've been a quiet but big fan of tig for quite some time, but to me,
>> requiring autoreconf is a much larger regression than DocBook dependency.
>
> I am not sure I understand. As far as I know, tig does not require
> autoreconf unless you have cloned the repository and want to bootstrap
> the configure script.

Yeah, but that was exactly what your announcement suggested to.  Show
Tarball and Gitfeed alternatives to a git person, who already has a clone
of the project, and guess which one he would go ;-).

Also INSTALL file begins with:

Installation instructions
-------------------------

Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig
repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are
available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
'release'.

To install tig simply run:

        $ autoreconf
        $ ./configure
        $ make install

By the way, it would be nice if someday I can get tig work with CJK.
Perhaps I need to tweak something in ncurses?