Re: configure scripts in mercurial
Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
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Hi, > * <[email protected]> [2016-09-01 11:34:06 +0000]: > > Daniel Jour replied to Sam Steingold: >>> Also, you removed the configure script, so now people have to install >>> autoconf to build clisp. >>> Are you sure this is right? >>I removed it from the repository because it is a generated file now. It >>would be part of a source distribution (a release) though, thus only >>CLISP developers need to have autoconf/automake/etc. > > 1. It's good that you plan to keep configure as part of a release > distribution. People expect to write ./configure ... && make. Absolutely! > I believe some people could be upset if they had to use autotools. > Probably that is precisely the reason why some open source project > nevertheless *include* configure within their RCS/SVN/hg/git tree, > beside configure.in. The former file is then typically generated by > one or a team of maintainers with a known (working) configuration, not > by individual users. Often enough, the file is only updated at > release time in hg/git. For instance, the wine project works exactly > like this. And Emacs no longer does. Getting autotools is trivial on most widely used platforms, e.g., linux, *bsd (including macosx), windows (cygwin/mingw). However, we don't have to switch away from our current modus operandi. Here and now is the right time and place for people to voice their opinions - do you like the current system (configure scripts in mercurial) or would you prefer the Emacs style (configure scripts in the distribution tar ball but regenerated by each developer). > Somehow, it would be a pain for a user to have to get clisp source > from hg but a working configure from inside a downloaded distribution, > instead of having everything in the tree. This is not right. You should regenerate the configure files yourself. E.g., when I clone the Emacs git tree, I run "./autogen.sh all" which does all the magic. At any rate, you vote is noted: keep configure in mercurial. Thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1404 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://palestinefacts.org http://iris.org.il http://islamexposedonline.com http://mideasttruth.com http://www.memritv.org Microsoft wants to monopolize the right to be a monopoly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ clisp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel