1 * get account on fencepost.gnu.org (email accounts@gnu.org)
2 set up copyright papers?
3 'assign.future' and 'request-assign.future.manual'
6 - The email address in 'Reporting Bugs' needs to be updated
8 * Figure out what needs the optin 'nostow' 'notstowed'. Can they be removed?
10 * _texi2man_ needs author/copyright/license to be completed
12 * Update http://directory.fsf.org/project/stow/
14 * Update savanaugh CVS
16 * Check that all email addresses are working: need an account on fenchpost for
17 this bug-stow@gnu.org, help-stow@gnu.org
19 * Get some pre-testers: need to find appropriate mailing list?
21 * Announce release on info-gnu@gnu.org.
23 * Autodetect "foreign" stow directories
25 From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
27 > My /usr/local/info equivalent is a symlink to /share/info
28 > because I want installs on all systems to put info files in that
29 > directory. With that set-up, stow chokes on fact that
30 > /usr/local/info is a symlink.
32 [...] Stow is designed to be paranoid about modifying anything it
33 doesn't "own." If it finds a symlink in the target tree (e.g.,
34 /usr/local/info) which doesn't point into the stow tree, its
35 paranoid response is to leave it the hell alone. But I can see in
36 this case how traversing the link and populating the directory on
37 the far end would be OK. Question: is that a special
38 circumstance, or would it always be OK to populate the far end of
39 a symlink in the target tree (when the symlink points to a
40 directory in a context where a directory is needed)? And: if it's
41 a special circumstance requiring a command-line option, should the
42 option be a mere boolean (such as, "--traverse-target-links") or
43 should it be an enumeration of which links are OK to traverse
44 (such as, "--traversable='info man doc'")?
46 Does Version 2 fix this? (Kal)
47 I think that because it never needs to create /usr/local/info,
48 it only needs to check th ownership of links that it _operatates_ on,
49 not on all the elements of the path.