=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 1) I want the bleeding edge from CVS. > 2) I don't want to have to have autotools to configure it. Thats fine. WHY? I've asked this here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-04/msg00610.html and here http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-04/msg00562.html. I've receieved nothing other than "everyone else does it" from 2 users (who are not in the habit of submitting patches) "I want HEAD CVS WITH NO AUTOTOOLS" from 1 users (who last submitted a patch over a year ago). Tell me WHY! giving you bleeding edge CVS with no autotools is so important. > 3) All the other sources.redhat.net packages do it that way. By and large they do. It's not all though. Have a look sometime before you make unfounded inaccurate assertions. Chris talked about a toolchain, which isn't quite what we are talking about here. We're talking about the installer, not a set of multipurpose tools. > 4) Chris Faylor, has said that it should be that way. Chris said he agreed with you. He didn't say "Make it so." > 5) No other answer will do, if you don't someone else will just have to. Thats not worthy of you. But please, go ahead and commit into a project someone else is maintaining something that they object to. > 6) Just do it, it hurts no one and makes everyone happy. It doesn't make me happy. And given the relative code contributions to setup.exe, I'd far rather have *me* happy than you, thank you very much. And Likewise for everyone who is actively contributing code. > 7) Philosophy has nothing to do with it, it's a psychological state of > happiness. Ok, I can accept that. So lie down on ze couch, and tell me vie you vant HEAD CVS. > 8) What's the big deal with adding a few files to the CVS? It's a PITA. Diffs get bigger, Changelogs get garbage 'Makefile.in: Regenerated.' entries. And when developers have different autotool versions, committing becomes a PITA because you cannot commit the generated files, or you end up with multiple huge patchs. And I think that asking every developer to have the *same* autotool versions is a much bigger ask than asking any CVS user to have *a* autotool version. Rob
