From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:21:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach git version --build-options about zlib versions.
Message-ID: <xmqqed7iyd4i.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <DS0PR17MB60312EE0F4B6679DBEEDAB42F4AA2@DS0PR17MB6031.namprd17.prod.outlook.com>

Randall Becker <randall.becker@nexbridge.ca> writes:

> 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.