The reality is that a lot of my users still want to build on RHEL 3.
Some of them even want to build on older Solaris versions for which
autoconf isn't even available. I disagree that we can ask more of them
than current VNC systems ask.
Users are not always developers. So in this case the main question is
really if we want to provide an easy way for end users to build Subversion
snapshots.
I don't see why checking in a 'configure' file is dangerous. Many other
projects do that, including our parent project (RealVNC.) RealVNC also
only requires autoconf 2.1. I think
We don't know if RealVNC are checking in their "configure" file in their
source repository - we don't know if they are using version control
software at all... Their releases certainly contains a 'configure' script
though, thus does not require Autoconf/Automake. This is a standard
practice that we should follow; we should certainly not require
Autoconf/Automake to build TigerVNC releases. But developer snapshots are
sometimes a different story.
At minimum, though, TigerVNC should be buildable on RedHat/CentOS EL 3
and later with no modifications to the O/S. This means it should work
with autoconf 2.5 and automake 1.6. Those are also the versions that OS
X Tiger uses.
Just trust me on this-- requiring users to upgrade their O/S in order to
work with our source code is going to cut our potential developer base
by a factor of 10.
I think you are right; we should consider every user as a potential
developer.
Either lowering the Autoconf/Automake version requirements or checking in
the configure script (and Makefile.in:s) is OK with me.
Regards,
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