Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/29/08:33:33
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From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
> 1) I want the bleeding edge from CVS.
> 2) I don't want to have to have autotools to configure it.
Thats fine. WHY? I've asked this
here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-04/msg00610.html and
here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-04/msg00562.html.
I've receieved nothing other than
"everyone else does it" from 2 users (who are not in the habit of
submitting patches)
"I want HEAD CVS WITH NO AUTOTOOLS" from 1 users (who last submitted a
patch over a year ago).
Tell me WHY! giving you bleeding edge CVS with no autotools is so
important.
> 3) All the other sources.redhat.net packages do it that way.
By and large they do. It's not all though. Have a look sometime before
you make unfounded inaccurate assertions.
Chris talked about a toolchain, which isn't quite what we are talking
about here. We're talking about the installer, not a set of multipurpose
tools.
> 4) Chris Faylor, has said that it should be that way.
Chris said he agreed with you. He didn't say "Make it so."
> 5) No other answer will do, if you don't someone else will just have
to.
Thats not worthy of you. But please, go ahead and commit into a project
someone else is maintaining something that they object to.
> 6) Just do it, it hurts no one and makes everyone happy.
It doesn't make me happy. And given the relative code contributions to
setup.exe, I'd far rather have *me* happy than you, thank you very much.
And Likewise for everyone who is actively contributing code.
> 7) Philosophy has nothing to do with it, it's a psychological state of
> happiness.
Ok, I can accept that. So lie down on ze couch, and tell me vie you vant
HEAD CVS.
> 8) What's the big deal with adding a few files to the CVS?
It's a PITA. Diffs get bigger, Changelogs get garbage 'Makefile.in:
Regenerated.' entries. And when developers have different autotool
versions, committing becomes a PITA because you cannot commit the
generated files, or you end up with multiple huge patchs. And I think
that asking every developer to have the *same* autotool versions is a
much bigger ask than asking any CVS user to have *a* autotool version.
Rob
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