On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Wed Mar 16 12:28:44 -0400 2011: > >> How is "I dont have to think; the tool will do it for me", a "pita >> for the user" ?? > > The do have to think. They need to ensure CC is set properly in the > environment.
That is standard practice for practically all software build sysems. If it isnt defined, it usually gets defined. So still pretty much on the "dont have to think" level. >> Err, no... *users* cannot toggle the preference. only sysadmins can. >> Thats why its not the best solution. > > Users in the sense of site admins. Admins control what compilers are > available, and often, they choose to have both sun cc and gcc available to their users. That's why the auto-adapt methodology serves our customers better. Yes, its more work for maintainers. But that is why our customers value CSW maintainers. They do more work, so CSW *users* do less work. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
