On 11/03/14 10:05, Jérémy Zurcher wrote:
> Ho,
>
> On Monday 10 March 2014  17:05, Tom Hacohen wrote :
>> Hey,
>>
>> The reason why I haven't added it until now, is that we do
>> auto-detection any more (i.e you have to enable/disable), and I didn't
>> want to pollute the configure script with this option. Not sure which is
>> worse.
> I know about the no more auto-detect rule,
> but thought it is feature a centric rule,
> that for me is an optional dev tool (luckilly we don't need to (en|dis)able 
> ar disable gcc ;)
> for me the worse is clearly to have to manually generate the parser

This is not a good comparison. If you don't have gcc, it won't compile. 
If you don't have ragel, it'll quietly continue. This means that people 
could get stuck in a "I'm changing the ragel file, while doesn't my code 
work" debug hell, until they figure this out.

This is bad.

--
Tom.




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