I like "config", because "configure" is a verb and "config" (or
"configuration") is a noun - the stage where you configure. Verbs
can't require things, but nouns can.
Eric mentioned that configure_requires is already in the wild,
though. Is that the case?
Also I hope you just accidentally said "depends" instead of
"requires", and you don't really mean it.
-Ken
On Jun 13, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote:
I believe that should be configure_depends:, as in "./
Configure" (the phase of installation).
Adam K
Ken Williams wrote:
All,
I committed a preliminary patch for config_requires support. It's
revision 9644 in the repo. It's currently exactly analogous to
the other prereq types, except that during the "dist" action we'll
warn the author if there's an item in config_requires that isn't
present in any of the other prereq fields. Earlier today I
managed to convince myself that might be the right way to do
things; I can try to lay out my reasoning here if anyone's
interested.
Keep in mind I'm also probably delirious from 2 days of stomach
flu and dehydration.
Also added it to the META spec.
I haven't figured out the right thing to do vis-a-vis
automatically adding M::B to config_requires.
-Ken
