Re: [PATCH v2] sha256: add support for Nettle

From: Reza Mahdi <admin@rzmahdi.ir>
Date: Aug 31, 2022, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID: <a1a0672b-4f6b-debd-34d1-bbd9e60f520e@rzmahdi.ir>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa69gr9ei.fsf@gitster.g>

On 7/11/2022 1:07 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>   (3) We can allow only one to be set and otherwise error out.
> 
>       If somebody wants to write autoconf support, they have to come
>       up with the precedence order, or support the "--with[out]-X"
>       thing to customize, in order to ensure that the configure
>       script picks exactly one.
> 
>       Because not everybody has nor need to have enough knowledge to
>       choose one among the multiple choices available to them, this
>       is hostile to those who do not use configure.
> 
>       Not an improvement over what we have today.

I think this is the most used and familiar to folk. There is no need to have multiple options since all of backends work perfectly.

And, of curse "--with-X" option must be meaningful when the sha256 is enabled.