From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 00:31:22 GMT Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem Message-ID: <465A22DA.4010504@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin escreveu: >>> but it does not do this, and does not check chache by default. Of course >>> tests have to be written to make use of cache, IIRC... >> Slowness is a misguided argument as well. Yes, configure is slow, but >> you only have to run it if configure.in , config.h.in or config.make.in >> chagnes. And that doesn't happen very often during development. > > Slowness is a good argument. The config does change from time to time (you > should know, IICC LilyPond had 36 changes in configure.in through 2006). Compared to the 100 recompiles during a typical debug/compile day, that's not very significant, IMO. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen