Hi Oswald, On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:23, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > suppose i prefer configure && make && stow ...
Patch is your friend. Or just chown and chmod afterwards. > do you really expect every new user to do a bughunt as the first thing? I'd expect most new users to use a distro that sets this up properly for them. IMO this is more of a documentation issue than a build issue. Maybe we should add a note to the README. > also, don't underestimate the "usage rate" of the upstream build system. > it is the de-facto standard of installing 3rd-party unix software. Any statistics on this? By the way, afaik cons.saver is only used on Linux. > what about the concept of "user friendliness"? > yes, there is a tradeoff. well, everywhere is. I agree. But we disagree on which trade off to make. > what type of eventualities do you talk about? Possible introduction of bugs when somebody should start touching this code. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel