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Re: New build process?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: New build process? |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:56:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 15:11, Tim Cross <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm actually with Richard on this one. I think the need to install,
>>> update, and use any additional commands before "./configure; make" is
>>> a nuisance whose justification is questionable at best. It's just
>>> that I gave up on talking people into catering to us dinosaurs whose
>>> paradise was lost, and Richard is still trying, because he's a better
>>> man than I am.
>>>
>>
>> If you believe you can do it and make it solid (which I expect you
>> can), then go for it. I personally don't think it is necessary as we
>> are talking about users who are choosing to interact at a low
>> development level, which IMO is a moving target subject to change and
>> instability. We should not set the bar too high here - put our efforts
>> into improving emacs and not into improving the build process for
>> those who chose to interact at this level.
>>
>> Yes, I guess I would be considered a dinosaur and possibly not even a
>
> Dear dinosaur, can't you believe making the build process simple saves
> a lot of time for many developers?
The build process _is_ simple. The question is more about it being
discoverable. Adding two sentences to INSTALL in the line of
These are the installation instructions for compiling Emacs from a
distribution tarball. If you are working from a Bazaar checkout,
please refer to INSTALL.BZR.
should be enough.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: New build process?, (continued)
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Peter Münster, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Peter Münster, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, David Kastrup, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Lennart Borgman, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: New build process?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2011/07/28
- Re: New build process?, David Kastrup, 2011/07/28
- Re: New build process?, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/07/29
- Re: New build process?, Tim Cross, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Paul Eggert, 2011/07/27
- Re: New build process?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/28
- Re: New build process?, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/28
- Re: New build process?, Andreas Schwab, 2011/07/27