From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: bug: git-sh-setup should not be in $PATH Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:11:28 +0100 Message-ID: <200612061811.29296.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <200612061752.39443.jnareb@gmail.com> <4576F65A.6010707@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=O5w62qO1ximu+YfnNP88M69zK/0YOVTOD2yMolw6iVA/wyiWSx83RK6pOHHf7cZ9aD63Eh43uESi4/ynh3/TKzr0lFxrIAgAi1oY25JukjxJ+ZCWpAIrr3t3KvJlIQ6FPk3kOdXIGFHcVxwp11SyKVUguA/v/E1hTKvqhtfkabQ= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4576F65A.6010707@xs4all.nl> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gs0H2-0003YB-I7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:09:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936480AbWLFRJd convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:09:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936499AbWLFRJd (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:09:33 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:61138 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936483AbWLFRJc (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:09:32 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so611923nfa for ; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.7.10 with SMTP id k10mr2522595nfi.1165424970353; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:09:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.24.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 13sm30535671ugb.2006.12.06.09.09.29; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:09:30 -0800 (PST) To: Han-Wen Nienhuys Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Dnia =B6roda 6. grudnia 2006 17:56, Han-Wen Nienhuys napisa=B3: > Jakub Narebski escreveu: > >> I'm still not sure if this has place in git. Is it really common to >> support building outside source directory? If git didn't support thi= s, >> so what? >=20 > lots of serious tools support it, as it this comes automatically > when using automake. Eg. emacs, gcc, make, pango, lilypond, etc etc.=20 >=20 > It's a quite standard feature ; you should be asking why git=20 > shouldn't support it. Because git is not autotool'ed project. And people protested vehemently against adding yet another dependency. So from the whole autotools suit= e only autoconf is used, and only to generate config.mak.autogen Makefile configuration, which otherwise would be needed to be generated by hand. BTW git tries to guess configuration based on uname -a result. There was also for a little while hand-generated configure script, but it got abandoned when it appeared that it is hard to be portable (and autoconf did the work; perhaps too hard but did, not using features which weren't common but now are in standard, but did), and the fact that it was possible to have _optional_ autoconf support. =20 Add to that the fact that people said that ./configure on Cygwin is slo= w (can be slow), so they prefer _not_ to run this. Besides, the fact that some tools suport some feature is not the reason to add it. You have to look at how often is this feature _used_. For example you don't need it (you need only DESTDIR support) for creating RPMS from sources. --=20 Jakub Narebski