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* Honour .no-stow-folding and --no-folding
* Support ignore lists in files
*** Implement.
*** Add documentation about ignore lists.
***** Justification for having stow ignore lists independently of VCS ignore lists
******* If a file is in the VCS ignore list for its containing repo
********* generated during development
probably shouldn't be stowed
********* generated during compilation / install
*********** could be an intermediary file
again, probably shouldn't be stowed
*********** but most likely a file to install
e.g. compiled binary/library/docs - should be stowed
******* If a file is not in the VCS ignore list for its containing repo
********* it's probably tracked by the VCS - part of the repo
********* could intended for end use
*********** e.g. script/config file requiring no modifications, docs
should be stowed
********* or intended only to be used during compilation / build phase
shouldn't be stowed
*** (Eventually) rsync-like include/exclude lists instead of ignore lists
* Add semi-automatic conflict resolution
*** STOW_RESOLVE_CONFLICTS="non_stow_symlinks=t stow_symlinks=r"
*** Add documentation about conflict resolution
* Make CPAN-friendly via Module::Build
*** Include test-time dependencies on Test::More and Test::Output
* get account on fencepost.gnu.org (email accounts@gnu.org)
set up copyright papers?
'assign.future' and 'request-assign.future.manual'
* Figure out what needs the option 'nostow' 'notstowed'. Can they be removed?
* _texi2man_ needs author/copyright/license to be completed
* Update http://directory.fsf.org/project/stow/
* Update savannah 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
From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
> My /usr/local/info equivalent is a symlink to /share/info
> because I want installs on all systems to put info files in that
> directory. With that set-up, stow chokes on fact that
> /usr/local/info is a symlink.
[...] Stow is designed to be paranoid about modifying anything it
doesn't "own." If it finds a symlink in the target tree (e.g.,
/usr/local/info) which doesn't point into the stow tree, its
paranoid response is to leave it the hell alone. But I can see in
this case how traversing the link and populating the directory on
the far end would be OK. Question: is that a special
circumstance, or would it always be OK to populate the far end of
a symlink in the target tree (when the symlink points to a
directory in a context where a directory is needed)? And: if it's
a special circumstance requiring a command-line option, should the
option be a mere boolean (such as, "--traverse-target-links") or
should it be an enumeration of which links are OK to traverse
(such as, "--traversable='info man doc'")?
Does Version 2 fix this? (Kal)
I think that because it never needs to create /usr/local/info,
it only needs to check the ownership of links that it _operates_ on,
not on all the elements of the path.
* emacs local variables
Local Variables:
mode: org
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