Re: [-SPAM-] [PATCH RFC v7 00/22] Modernize the build system

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2024, 12:48 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfrnok8s9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZzsJRFQ2KaJCiOyG@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Now there will be exceptions where it does make sense to make something
> a build option, due to whatever reason. But I'm in the camp of adding
> them as-needed and not proactively so that we don't end up with hundreds
> of options.

Surely, your system may have openssl installed, but for non-technical reasons you may not want your Git to link with it, which is impossible to auto-detect, of course.

To be quite honest, while I am very much sympathetic to the above, in practice, I am afraid that these knobs we _already_ have in our Makefile are exceptions that was added due to whatever reason "as needed". Dropping any of them would mean that you are declaring this: by default, all the past exceptions we made are nullified and you have to resubmit for requalification if you want to keep your favourite one.

That's not a very nice way to run the project, though.

Thanks.