From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:31:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Chicken/egg problem building from a 'git clone'
Message-ID: <buoab8z52te.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vprhw6l1i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Hmm, after reading my message again, I did sound rather misleading to
> solicit a response like that from a gnu person, so let me try again.
>
> Please do not encourge use of configure/autoconf *in this project*.

Er ... I was not doing so.  I was saying that if one is going to use
autoconf with git, one should use a non-ancient version.

I don't think merely discussing autoconf+git without pejorative asides
is "encouraging use".

-Miles

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