Greg Stein wrote:
>
> > I hate to chime in here, but I must agree. Things have certainly
> > come a long way when the build/configure system tried to
> > be as LCD (lowest common denominator) as possible.
>
> And it was a recursive make solution which we're trying to fix. If you can
> come up with an LCD approach which has a single top-level Makefile, then
> please feel free.
>
> > If we require all this "extra" stuff, then, at least to my
> > mind, it means that we need to rethink not just patch.
>
> Oh, come on. For somebody building straight from CVS, to add a Python
> dependence? Okay, so it caught a few people unawares. We make changes like
> that all the time. But this one is not hard to solve.
>
> In any case, this whole notion of "rewrite as a shell script" just isn't
> going to fly.
>
:)
No, I have no solutions, nor did I mean to imply that:
o Such a solution is trivial
o That the solution used was done with no
thought of impact to developers.
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