Re: dropping sigc++

Brandon Black <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:45:03 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.y.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:59:10 +0800, Rogelio Serrano
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:55:52 +0800
> Subject: Re: [Y-devel] dropping sigc++
> To: James Harr <[email protected]>
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:53:56 +0800, Rogelio Serrano
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:47:46 -0600, James Harr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I don't really see how this is possible, unless you want to drop the C++
> > > libraries. Because sigc++ is kind of the cornerstone of it...
> > >
> > > On Sunday 16 January 2005 11:18 pm, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > > > Anybody has a plan to make sigc++ optional?
> > >
> > > --
> > > James Harr <[email protected]>
> > > http://www.grickle.org/
> > >
> >
> > I see.
> >
> > I doubt if c++ can be made optional either since autoconf requires
> > c++. Its a bug I think but its not fixed yet.
> >
> 
> I will drop autoconf then.
> 
> It looks like i can still do something useful with this project.
> 

What exactly is the point of dropping sigc++?  And this autoconf part
of this thread makes no sense.  Removing autoconf from the project
(why on earth would one do that?) would not obviate the need for
sigc++.