Re: Autoconf/Automake

From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Jun 16, 2006, 20:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20060616201715.GM7766@nowhere.earth>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0606160053560.7480@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:58:30AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:42:40PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > As for now, I fail to see why the current system is not adequate for git!
> > 
> > I can reassure you, gazillions of people still fail to see why cvs is
> > not adequate for their project.  And the ratio of devs in the
> > corporate world not knowning git to those not knowning cvs is far
> > superior to 2.  And everyone here knows cvs is not more adequate than
> > git for so many tasks :)
> 
> You know as well as I that this comparison is unfair. I am _NOT_ a 
> corporate person. I hope that you do not judge me as a complete airhead.

Well, I have to apologize - especially after looking closer at the current Makefile. I think I understand now why autoconf was suggested in the first place, but it what it would achieve would mostly moving the ifdef's to configure.ac, which would not be such a gain anyway.

Best regards,

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