From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: RFC: a plugin architecture for git extensions? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:38:32 -0700 Message-ID: <7vwrif5q93.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4DB80747.8080401@op5.se> <4DB82D90.6060200@op5.se> <7vbozr8uo8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vpqo77dlr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <1303930175.25134.38.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <20110427194233.GA16717@gnu.kitenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Joey Hess X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 27 23:38:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QFCRe-0003Ga-2Q for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:38:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756767Ab1D0Vio (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:38:44 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:59902 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753171Ab1D0Vin (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:38:43 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95DB49F4; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:40:43 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=mlMc5NeKbOqlNxHzYwvMYNkpgf0=; b=MtFKvm MRJ0+s8CpX2DqsQpGT1wdlfm2TnFC+cjY6z3Ye2PF7xP94pkqbd3DYui3hNpRCQi OEnu65CpsyPA/4bC2AE01dz46CpZgrjpFGkapUDVqTUDxILxwMS8BF9NtAbh9LO1 xYucCVhzMq0Mh7b45BH3Fqz4pXia8F19T2BLI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=vYfHy7U+p7LQO88UCyeZFttM91+M8nI/ O+l/8BpKs1qKgf0HgotRXoRUiqOoEAugZlYN4B/i95WWEKCXsuznyqGgJwOR+Ih3 pufMUDdhF3U3VrM1KgaUzHBVsLuK1SLU7n1HrMOr7RHeHswWo0dT6UJG0xta7Teo IKQ3Hx+yWN4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D1749F3; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:40:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AFFCC49F2; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:40:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20110427194233.GA16717@gnu.kitenet.net> (Joey Hess's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:42:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FF331170-7116-11E0-9CA2-E8AB60295C12-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Joey Hess writes: > Tools like autoconf etc already know how to install man pages into the > right places. I don't see the need for any additional support for git > here. But the original point by Andreas was that third-party tools like "git work" should be able to just say "make install", and of course the distro people can take it from there, but the thing is, distro people can take it from a very low starting point. Unless "make install" does not figuire out how the user's git is configured and installed, it won't be very useful for end users who do say "make install" for whatever reason, instead of installing it from their distro. For example, on my primary development box, I do not have any git installed from distribution, but I do have git on my $PATH. For such users, "make install" should be able to find out that the right place to install git-work.1 is in $HOME/some/where/man/man1 directory.