1 * Import a debian/ tree from an older package and update it.
2 * Import a .spec file from somewhere and update it.
3 * Distinguish between .stow and (undocumented) .nonstow
4 ** .stow is for marking stow directories - avoids altering them
5 but also allows --override to work
6 ** .nonstow should be only for protecting non-stow directories against modification by stow
7 but currently allows modification via --override.
8 ** Documentation needs to be clear on this.
9 * Prevent folding of directories which contain ignored files
10 * Honour .no-stow-folding and --no-folding
11 * Add semi-automatic conflict resolution
12 *** STOW_RESOLVE_CONFLICTS="non_stow_symlinks=t stow_symlinks=r"
13 *** Add documentation about conflict resolution
14 * get account on fencepost.gnu.org (email accounts@gnu.org)
15 set up copyright papers?
16 'assign.future' and 'request-assign.future.manual'
18 * Figure out what needs the files '.nonstow' and '.notstowed'. Can they be removed?
20 * Update http://directory.fsf.org/project/stow/
24 * Check that all email addresses are working: need an account on fenchpost for
25 this bug-stow@gnu.org, help-stow@gnu.org
27 * Get some pre-testers: need to find appropriate mailing list?
29 * Announce release on info-gnu@gnu.org.
31 * Autodetect "foreign" stow directories
33 From e-mail with meyering@na-net.ornl.gov:
35 > My /usr/local/info equivalent is a symlink to /share/info
36 > because I want installs on all systems to put info files in that
37 > directory. With that set-up, stow chokes on fact that
38 > /usr/local/info is a symlink.
40 [...] Stow is designed to be paranoid about modifying anything it
41 doesn't "own." If it finds a symlink in the target tree (e.g.,
42 /usr/local/info) which doesn't point into the stow tree, its
43 paranoid response is to leave it the hell alone. But I can see in
44 this case how traversing the link and populating the directory on
45 the far end would be OK. Question: is that a special
46 circumstance, or would it always be OK to populate the far end of
47 a symlink in the target tree (when the symlink points to a
48 directory in a context where a directory is needed)? And: if it's
49 a special circumstance requiring a command-line option, should the
50 option be a mere boolean (such as, "--traverse-target-links") or
51 should it be an enumeration of which links are OK to traverse
52 (such as, "--traversable='info man doc'")?
54 Does Version 2 fix this? (Kal)
55 I think that because it never needs to create /usr/local/info,
56 it only needs to check the ownership of links that it _operates_ on,
57 not on all the elements of the path.
59 * emacs local variables