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From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:11:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Cocci] 1.0.0-rc17: Further fine-tuning for the build system?
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> Are you the project leader for this software?
> >
> > Yes, but build systems are very tricky and entirely out of my expertise.
>
> I can eventually help to become used to the usual software development in this
> application area.
>
>
> > As long as the system builds in some way, I don't see the need for
> > supporting every possible exotic combination.
>
> I hope that mistakes will be fixed in the near future.
>
>
> > Notably, building the software from some directory other than the one
> > in which the software is located seems completely unnecessary, as far
> > as I can see.
>
> If you want to improve the Autotools setup, you will get this feature easily.
> The usefulness of "out-of-source builds / parallel build trees" might become
> obvious if more configuration variants will be considered for the software
> generation.
>
>
> > I don't want to make changes that are inessential and that I don't understand.
>
> Would you like adjust Automake details?
>
> How do you think about to start corrections with the selection of corresponding
> make file names?
>
>
> > Any thing that one person proposes would have to be reviewed by someone else.
>
> Would Rene perform such review tasks eventually since he was involved as a
> Github committer?

I don't think so.  The required expertises are quite different.

julia