On Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:19:05 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2012-08-09 16:51, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > I'm a little bit confused. > > > > You first say it's a bad idea to use autotools at build-time (which I > > a'gree with, but that's not relevant). > > And then that you are crafting an autotools spkg, which as I understand > > implies that you suggest to use it at build-time. > No, I want this to be used at packaging-time. > Autotools should be used by people *creating* the package. > Ok so what's the point of having an autotools package? To enforce people using it? I must admit I rarely use anything provided by Sage itself when tweaking packages (except for testing...). I'd better use my own system-wide mercurial and autotools, but I guess that could change.
And that does not answer the question to know if we should track the changes to the autogenerated files or not :) -- -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
