From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: iproute2: use automake Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:41:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20101116.094132.59704380.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20101115.175928.104078108.davem@davemloft.net> <20101116075851.0de8d177@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jengelh@medozas.de, stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38379 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752419Ab0KPRlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:41:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20101116075851.0de8d177@nehalam> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:58:51 -0800 > Until you make a convincing case that the existing infrastructure > is a problem, choosing an alternative solution is bogus. > > All the fancy build systems are designed to solve the issue > of building one piece of software in multiple environments. > The iproute2 utilities only work on Linux and so far I haven't > had any major complaints from any distribution maintainer about it. I totally agree. I can't count the amount of times I've seen major source trees invest tons of engineering into things to decrease the pain of using things like automake and libtool. X11 even has a script that basically turns libtool into one big fat NOP, because on Linux everything libtool tries to figure out is completely superfluous. Don't crap up the tree with unnecessary non-sense just for some theoretical gain. Things work just fine right now.