Re: Autoconf/Automake

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:17:15PM CEST, I got a letter
where Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> said that...
> 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.

Except that then I don't need to bother manually adding NO_EXPAT to the
makefile on all systems I compile git on.

Yes, it's not a huge bother per se, but since almost all other
non-obscure projects do figure these things out automagically, git kind
of stands out negatively here. "Wah, it needs me tweak the Makefile to
be able to compile it."

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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