Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] [PATCH] Static dependency errors

Hi Pierre,

> As part of online discussion and IRC, we already define this behavior.
> It was also discussion to have different levels of configure errors
> (warning, fatal, etc.). The idea is also to display only the relevant
> information and it is what the summary begin to do (while leaving the
> possibility to have a verbose and noisy output as now).

Not being party to this discussion, I'm not entirely sure what you mean 
here.

> You may consider to discuss things off list.  You would have been told
> to wait a couple of days instead (Rob knows it but he may have forgot
> to mention that in your discussions) as I already said that I'm
> working on these changes.

That's precisely why a patch and not a commit, although I have to say Rob 
didn't specifically say that other work being done in this area.

> The changes I made (like for DOM) are part of this task and are
> desired, they will remain like it is now.

I think that's very much open to discussion. Who desires messed-up local 
configuration files, and why?

As a (small) proof of its
> goodness, you can now build php without having any library available
> but resolv.lib (and this one will be dropped soon as well).

You can do that with my patch, too.

> About the difficulty to write config.32, I can't agree. It is very
> easy to write a config.w32 file for Windows, even with our recent
> changes (which are only about checking that a given requirement is
> full filled).

Those changes in local configuration files actually cause dependency logic 
to be avoided.

> The unix-like output is the worst thing ever, it is almost impossible
> to quickly match the relevant warning or errors.  Many newbies even
> prefer the new outputs instead of the unreadable unix-like one. They
> ask for more improvements like that.

Where are all these people and where are all those requests?

> I'm sorry but I'm not in favor of applying this patch as it covers
> something that is covered by the upcoming error level and logging
> option. Please don't commit it.

Could you point me to some discussion of this upcoming error level and 
logging option?

Thanks,

- Steph

>
>
> Cheers,
> ---
> Pierre
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