On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mark Galeck (CW) <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hmm, this is interesting, thank you for bringing this up David. I have two >> comments: >> >> 1. This (and other) open source projects, are used in corporate >> environments, where certain version of the project is installed, and users >> cannot just download a new version without approval. If I use a particular >> fixed feature of GNU make, I cannot populate it across the company without >> everybody else downloading the latest version, which in practice makes it >> impossible to use a fixed feature, until the IT department downloads the >> change for everybody, which can be very delayed.
Also, you've said that this particular thing is being done for diagnostic purposes. If so, I don't know why you couldn't make the fix and use it only in your testing environment. -David Boyce _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
