Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] bootstrap: Migrate linguas.sh into bootstrap.conf

Glenn Washburn
2025-11-20T18:42:41Z

On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:34:19 +0100
Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 01:49:19PM -0600, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> > Bootstrap has infrustructure for downloading/updating project po files
> > and generating the LINGUAS file. It uses wget instead of rsync, but
>
> Both wget and rsync are missing from INSTALL file. Could you add them there?
> If you do that you can add my RB to all patch from this series.

I think I should not add the rsync as a requirement now that the
patches use the bootstrap code for downloading translations. It
appears that the only place where rsync might be used is in
gnulib/build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update, which you might be using to update
the documentation on gnu.org. Currently, I don't think we have a place
to document requirements needed by project maintainers. If we want to
document that it should be in a separate series.

Of course rsync is still used in the, now depreciated, linguas.sh, but
users should not be using that. I left linguas.sh as a fallback in the
unlikely case that there's some edge case where it might be needed. I
would say after the release we should remove that file.

Glenn