On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, bulia byak wrote:

To fix this:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=866103&gro...

I want to back up the old prefs file before writing the new one. Adding an option to backup SVG files when saving would be great, too. There's a library here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/

that has this functionality and claims to be portable. So what do we do?

• include gnulib as a dependency

• lift just backupfile.c and copy-file.c from it and include in our codebase

• find some other lib

• write the backup function ourselves

Any comments?

According to the GNULib webpage it recommends:

"[GNULib's] components are intended to be shared at the source level, rather than being a library that gets installed and linked against. Instead, the idea is to copy files from gnulib into your own source tree. "

So this seems to support approach #2.

Bryce