Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach git version --build-options about zlib versions.
Randall Becker <randall.becker@nexbridge.ca> writes:
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> What I actually proposed was splitting --build-options with
> runtime (some representative argument). This would allow the
> headers used at build time (--build-options) to be reported *and*
> the runtime (probably) DLL versions (but would also report static
> linked library versions) to be reported. Both are useful from a
> support standpoint.
That certainly is a reasonable future plan.
> However, the --build-options argument was
> intended to report an invariant set of values used during the
> build, so I would rather not conflate the two distinctly different
> semantic values.
This reasoning makes sense to me, too.
Please wrap overly long lines to reasonable width, by the way.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>