Moin! Rene Engelhard wrote: > Rene Engelhard wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Volker Quetschke wrote: >>>>> Well, the "discussion" on IRC basically was you stating: "I did not add >>>>> the URL on purpose and don't want to add it" (paraphrased) >>>> That's a thorough discussion! Because your (debians) opinion is against >>>> this all other people that try to build this beast have to suffer. >>> That might be true, that's why that external/common mechanism is in >>> place. >>> >>> Anyway, cloph is simplyfing because "rebuild from source" *is* a >>> principle in the OSS world, not just for Debian.. Although many people >>> apparently don't care that much....
Thank you. > Err, sorry, text got lost. > > Add there: > > "And that was what I said. So the default should be to rebuild it and > the idea that I didn't add the URL was that I want to save people from > using it." Alright, my opinion pales in front of the OSS gods, but we are talking about developing a nice project here. I don't want to add extra time to the build by rebuilding external dependencies. So why do I have to add the switches to disable the rebuilding just so that distros that don't have to provide the enable switches? > Like, see what happen(s/ed) with gpc? There's basegfx' implementation > any serious distribution nowadays use, and community builder which > doesn't have gpc.c/gpc.h in external/gpc use and it works. But people > still use gpc? Why? Because the build instructions tell so and old > versions even failed unless you specified --disable-gpc (changed longer > ago). Cool, ever thought about fixing the build instructions when changing configure? Breaking stuff for the greater OSS good is always easy, but _we_ are trying to maintain a cross-platform product here and have to show some tolerance. Volker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D
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