Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > What I do not like is that your patch is taking away options. It would > have been less work to leave in support for those flags than to remove > them.
Taking away options is what software engineering is all about. Module. Class. Encapsulation. API. Any script kiddy can barf up a mess that can (sorta) get it done. Is that really the direction you want to steer this project in? I don't care how much less work it would have been to leave those unmentionables unmentioned. Burying dirty laundry never results in clean linen. > Yes... lets pretend I have looked at those patches... :) That is my whole point! You spent too much time looking at the patches I submitted. I thought: "obviously he's using the autoconf tools so this patch won't take up much of his time". But I was apparently wrong. I apologize. Yet when I suggest using decades-old tools to alleviate the problem the response is "no thanks." Odd. > Given we are championing the autotools way, good autoconf macros > automatically set a value but provide a flag to override it. Who's this "we"?
