Stefan Tauner wrote: > Heavily influenced by a discussion with (and based on code from) Peter Stuge. > --- > Peter Stuge argued all evening with me that the mandatory -p parameter > is a regression and should be fixed, because the common case is -p internal > and that was the default programmer for most of the installations especially > those users that dont know what they are doing. While i don't think that the > internal programmer should be the new default default (sic) programmer > i do see the point in having a default programmer and don't think that the > "some user used to one default programmer could easily break $stuff when > using another build" outweighs the freedom of maintainers to shoot their > users in the foot especially if they are the same person. ;) > > We can not force any distributor to have no default programmer anyway, a > patch that adds one is trivial. Having this build time option does not > neccessarily make us endorsing this option either: If we deem it worth it, > we could add a build warning and add a note in the Makefile/README to > make maintainers consider our arguments. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tau...@student.tuwien.ac.at>
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