On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Alex Gough wrote: > > I've modified Configure.pl to take defaults from a previous build (if > > there was one). This should play nicely with hints, and '--defaults' > > by doing the Right Thing. I've added a '--nopolicy' option to disable > > this. > > I haven't thought this through too carefully, but it seems to me that the > name 'policy' might confuse perl5's Policy.sh users here, since it means > something slightly different.
Given that this isn't going to be the way we eventually configure parrot and perl6, I don't know that there is that much of a conflict. This is also the closest thing to a policy we have at the moment. I'd like this in as more of a convience measure, as some of the perls I'm playing with parrot with were configured in really odd ways so at the moment I'm needing to change the options each time I reconfigure which is a pain. Then again, if it's only the name that's a problem, there's no reason why it couldn't become 'fresh' or something like that. Alex Gough -- Henry wanted the Pope to give him a divorce from his first wife, Katherine. He wanted this because she was Arrogant and he thought it would be a Good Thing. The Pope, however, refused, and seceded with all his followers from the Church of England. This was called the Restoration.
