[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Cleanup of files of the root dir

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-04-09 16:59:32, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:55:10PM +0200, per@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > > > > Don't most projects have a PEOPLE file?
> > > >
> > > > I have found around 25 AUTHORS files on a quick scan on my
> > > > harddisk. And no PEOPLE file. It also looks like AUTHORS is created by
> > > > glade.
> > ...
> > > well then, let me weigh in against an AUTHORS file. I agree with Paul.
> > > PEOPLE is more inclusive. Whether or not other projects have it is to me
> > > immaterial.
> > 
> > What is not immaterial, I suppose, is that AUTHORS is required by
> > automake. It is part of the GNU standard. You must run "automake
> > --foreign" to avoid this. I'd rather not.
> > 
> > My vote is for AUTHORS.
> 
> hmm, ok, so it seems that NEWS, COPYING, README, INSTALL, and AUTHORS are 
> all required to be in the root dir for automake to operate without the flag.
> 
> I say leave these in the root dir, move the rest to doc/
> (though I'd almost want a doc.i18n/ directory or some such)
> but I still like the AUTHORS to be bare with everything in doc/PEOPLE

I agree...
Just put a pointer to PEOPLE in AUTHORS...
I wouldn't mind if PEOPLE was in the root but that's no big deal...

/Daniel

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