On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 09:15:40AM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:56:11PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> >  - Would it be better to patch configure.ac instead of configure?
> 
> When I would patch configure.ac the configure needs to be either patched too 
> or
> regenerated. Regeneration on the fly needs some extra tools like autoconf.
> Patching of both configure.ac and configure would technically end in very
> similar situation as I have now where I patched the configure only. During the
> build nobody cares about the configure.ac content.

Huh?  We don't have autoconf installed on build servers?

> >    Can you please test that using white/light foreground color on
> >    black/dark foreground color?
> 
> I tested both old mutt and the new one with different color settings of mutt
> and terminal and in all cases the color output from both mutts was exactly the
> same. The only difference were extra spaces with the old mutt.

Will you submit this patch upstream?

> Considering the usage of updated mutt sources in sfwnv: We use latest released
> mutt sources - 1.5.20. There is an option to use the mercurial trunk but this
> would lead to situation where we will have a source tarball in the gate which
> was never released and it is also not possible to download it from the
> internet. I consider this as a nightmare for the mutt maintainer :-).

Of course, I wouldn't suggest it.

Nico
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