On 15 October 2016 at 05:26, Steven Gawroriski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 05:59:23 +0900 > Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Here is a trivial patch to build the source tree even with unknown > > options for autosetup/autosetup but make sure to warn user. > > > > The idea is from Barak A. Pearlmutter. > > > > Regards, > > > > Osamu > > > > PS: re-send from subscribed addess > > Hello, > > Not a developer of Fossil, but this could have potential compatibility > issues in the future with unknown options being passed. Say someone > builds with `--with-butter=salted`. Then later on Fossil adds a switch > that has the same name `--with-butter=`, but it takes a different kind > of argument that is completely incompatible. If the behavior is relied > upon it cannot really be taken back once it is out in the open. > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > This won't be a problem - Fossil is a fat-free scm. :-p I guess I better leave a serious response here too... I don't know how other projects handle non-standard build features (apart from rejecting them outright), but a possible solution is for Fossil to agree to never use the --with-my-<feature> namespace, or something similar if they don't like -my-.
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