On 08/11/2007, Stefan Teleman <Stefan.Teleman at sun.com> wrote: > > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > The only problem I see with this is that SXCE/SXDE is a moving target. > > A lot of the GNU tools that aren't provided now are supposed to be > > integrated in the near future (a lot of arc cases have been recently > > approved or will be soon related to them). > > > > Thus, a significant portion of these tools will be provided already. > > > > Perhaps a better way to do this is to check for the presence of a tool > > that we could build first, and failing to detect it, building and > > installing it. > > Won't work. > > There is no guarantee that the ARC'ed tools will move at the same speed as > KBE/KDE may require in the future, and introducing yet another nightmare of > maintaining a compatibility matrix between different versions of the build > tools > is something noone should have to deal with. > > Updating something in cvsdude and then doing a svn up is likely to be much > easier to handle, for both maintainers and consumers.
Right; which is why I was suggesting detecting the tools instead, because I don't think the approach of "not building tools already provided" is viable for the very reason you mentioned. In the end, perhaps it is easiest to simply build and install all of them. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
