Re: Autoconf/Automake

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:58:30AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:42:40PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > As for now, I fail to see why the current system is not adequate for git!
> > 
> > I can reassure you, gazillions of people still fail to see why cvs is
> > not adequate for their project.  And the ratio of devs in the
> > corporate world not knowning git to those not knowning cvs is far
> > superior to 2.  And everyone here knows cvs is not more adequate than
> > git for so many tasks :)
> 
> You know as well as I that this comparison is unfair. I am _NOT_ a 
> corporate person. I hope that you do not judge me as a complete airhead.

Well, I have to apologize - especially after looking closer at the
current Makefile.  I think I understand now why autoconf was suggested
in the first place, but it what it would achieve would mostly moving
the ifdef's to configure.ac, which would not be such a gain anyway.

Best regards,
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