On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2008-01-07, Philip Prindeville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok, never mind. We'll just skip the updates for now then... Having > >> multiple tars to unpack just doesn't work well with our build system. > >> > > > > You only have to fetch and unpack them once per major release, so it > > shouldn't be a big deal. Everything is configured and built from > > the top-level configure and make commands. > > > > Well, it gets worse: Unix vim is bzip2'd, whereas the language and > extras stuff is gzipped. > > Which makes the script to pull down and build the stuff even more > useless, since packages can only specify one uncompression method, etc...
Wow, this seems like a really inflexible build system. I imagine the project will run into similar problems in the long run unless the build system is made a bit more flexible. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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