On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:50:28 +0200 "Alex-P. Natsios" <[email protected]> said:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > all we can do is ensure at least its least broken for those that work on the > > src itself and ... :/ > > thing is an automated way did not work even for those who actively > work/ed on the code. > it wasn't just platform but also autotools dependent. over the past 16+ years i've learned that: 1. autotools likes to upgrade regularly from 1.xx to 1.yy and so on 2. as it upgrades it often creates brekages, deprecates stuff and breaks it etc. 3. you often can't just choose any combination of versions of automake + autoconf + libtool + gettext etc. - you need a "magic working combo" 4. reality is that "we make it work for us". until "us" is the most number of devs. what the above magic combos are changes over time, and then a year goes by and it's all good and then suddenly some distro revs, upgrades these tools and everyone is bitching that things don't build anymore because they upgrade within days or weeks of the new distro release. re-running autotools is something DEVS do. our job is to produce tarballs that dont need to run autotools. so it must work for us. we work on the code every day and produce such tarballs. reality is we CANNOT make it work for everyone. well not from the "run autotools" point. our job is to make TARBALLS that work for everyone. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
