Re: [PATCH 0/8] CMake build system for git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 28, 2020, 05:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20200428053602.GA2376380@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BE4qBquBwHp6QH31WNcQ-jUMrC+SqCbnBWKtCxdhoWRCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 03:23:22PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:

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> > If it lived in contrib/ that might strike a good balance between making
> > it available for people to experiment with, but not having people
> > confuse it for the official build system.
> 
> Maybe we could move configure.ac and config.mak.in into contrib as well?

Maybe. I have a feeling that most folks who use autoconf do it from the tarballs, which have the generated ./configure anyway.

-Peff

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