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38dcdcb08c Initial Import

TODO

@@ -1,16 +1,27 @@
--*- outline -*-
+* get account on fencepost.gnu.org (email accounts@gnu.org) 
+  set up copyright papers? 
+  'assign.future' and 'request-assign.future.manual'
+
+* Update stow.texi
+  - The email address in 'Reporting Bugs' needs to be updated
+
+* Figure out what needs the optin 'nostow' 'notstowed'. Can they be removed?
+
+* _texi2man_ needs author/copyright/license to be completed
+
+* Update http://directory.fsf.org/project/stow/
+
+* Update savanaugh CVS
+
+* Check that all email addresses are working: need an account on fenchpost for
+  this bug-stow@gnu.org, help-stow@gnu.org
+
+* Get some pre-testers: need to find appropriate mailing list?
+
+* Announce release on info-gnu@gnu.org.
 
 * Autodetect "foreign" stow directories
 
-* Fix empty-dir problem (see "Known bugs" in the manual)
-
-* Continue after conflicts.
-
-When detecting a conflict, affected subparts of the Stow traversal can
-be skipped while continuing with other subparts.
-
-* Traverse links in the target tree?
-
 From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
 
     > My /usr/local/info equivalent is a symlink to /share/info
@@ -32,16 +43,7 @@ From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
     should it be an enumeration of which links are OK to traverse
     (such as, "--traversable='info man doc'")?
 
-* Develop a mechanism for sharing files between packages.
-
-This would solve the problem of maintaining N platform-specific copies
-of a package, all of which have many platform-*independent* files
-which could be shared, such as man pages, info files, etc.
-
-* Option to ignore certain files in the stow tree.
-
-For example, --ignore='*~ .#*' (skip Emacs and CVS backup files).
-
-* Option to ignore links in the stow tree to certain places.
-
-For example, --ignore-link='/*' (skip absolute links).
+Does Version 2 fix this? (Kal)
+I think that because it never needs to create /usr/local/info,
+it only needs to check th ownership of links that it _operatates_ on,
+not on all the elements of the path.