{"thread":{"id":"19630","subject":"configure.ac and friends could use some love","startedAt":"2009-06-01T21:41:35Z","lastAt":"2009-06-05T16:16:54Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["C.J. Adams-Collier","Andreas Ericsson","Jakub Narebski","Ralf Wildenhues"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"115216","messageId":"1243892495.5366.11.camel@norseth","threadId":"19630","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"configure.ac and friends could use some love","fromName":"C.J. Adams-Collier","fromEmail":"cjac@colliertech.org","sentAt":"2009-06-01T21:41:35Z","receivedAt":"2009-06-01T21:41:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"cjac@colliertech.org","avatar":null},"body":"with whom should I co-ordinate?\n\n"},{"id":"115228","messageId":"4A24C60C.3000600@op5.se","threadId":"19630","inReplyTo":"1243892495.5366.11.camel@norseth","subject":"Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love","fromName":"Andreas Ericsson","fromEmail":"ae@op5.se","sentAt":"2009-06-02T06:26:20Z","receivedAt":"2009-06-02T06:26:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ae@op5.se","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/426e89595c75a8f5252dd0c989e5fabe5bcac616e68557427ad9aef6b0ca342a?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:\n> with whom should I co-ordinate?\n> \n\ngit@vger and Jakub Narebski.\n\n  git shortlog -ns -- configure.ac\n\nwould have told you as much ;-)\n\n-- \nAndreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se\nOP5 AB                             www.op5.se\nTel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231\n\nRegister now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm\n http://nordicmeetonnagios.op5.org/\n\nConsidering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and\nterror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war\non peace.\n"},{"id":"115232","messageId":"m3zlcr9c0a.fsf@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"19630","inReplyTo":"4A24C60C.3000600@op5.se","subject":"Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-06-02T10:16:48Z","receivedAt":"2009-06-02T10:16:48Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:\n> C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:\n\n> > with whom should I co-ordinate?\n> >\n> \n> git@vger and Jakub Narebski.\n> \n>   git shortlog -ns -- configure.ac\n> \n> would have told you as much ;-)\n\nWhile it is true that I was behind adding ./configure support to git\nin optional and non-intrusive way (configure.ac and config.mak.in),\nmainly to be able to use %configure macro in git.spec -- which never\nmaterialized, I lack in my opinion expertise in autoconf to be\na maintainer for those scripts.\n\nDavid Syzdek offered to help or take the brunt of the work on our\nautoconf corner, see e.g. this post:\n  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111923\nbut he wanted help of someone whom is familiar with the interaction\nbetween the Makefile and configure.ac... which never materialized.\n\nInstead of git-shortlog, you should take a look at git-blame output\nwho is responsible for more advanced corners of configure.ac:\nDavid M. Syzydek (GIT_CHECK_FUNC), Ben Walton (GIT_STASH_FLAGS),\nRalf Wildenhues (caching support), etc.\n\n-- \nJakub Narebski\nPoland\nShadeHawk on #git\n"},{"id":"115538","messageId":"loom.20090605T161436-309@post.gmane.org","threadId":"19630","inReplyTo":"m3zlcr9c0a.fsf@localhost.localdomain","subject":"Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love","fromName":"Ralf Wildenhues","fromEmail":"ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-06-05T16:16:54Z","receivedAt":"2009-06-05T16:16:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de","avatar":null},"body":"Jakub Narebski writes:\n> \n> I lack in my opinion expertise in autoconf to be\n> a maintainer for those scripts.\n> \n> David Syzdek offered to help or take the brunt of the work on our\n> autoconf corner, see e.g. this post:\n>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111923\n> but he wanted help of someone whom is familiar with the interaction\n> between the Makefile and configure.ac... which never materialized.\n\nWhile I don't have the time to read git@ regularly and be a good maintainer\nof its configure.ac and friends, I'm certainly willing to answer all autotools\nrelated questions.  Please Cc: me on them.\n\nCheers,\nRalf\n"}]}