On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Thu Jun 28 00:38:16 +0200 2012:
>> Ok. Why was builderDefs rejected? What problems do you see with it, and what 
>> do others see?
> What does reject mean?

Eelco has said on a few occasions that new packages should not use builderDefs, 
IIRC.

> I'd say it was not adopted (by me yet) because
> the existing monolitic setup.sh works good enough - I have my templates
> and its fastest for me. That's why I didn't spend more time on it.
> 
> And if there was a change it would be ok to have different scripts until
> there is a big "let's recompile all" change - then everything could be
> updated to use the latest version of setup.sh
> 
> Problems? You can't say "this phase must be run before configure", can
> you? Not sure how often this case happens.
> 
> Marc Weber
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