From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config.in Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:00:45 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <87g01vbhzi.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018991361 5518 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 21:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xaCW-0001Qt-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:09:20 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16xaUu-0005r9-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:28:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xaCJ-0001Qb-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from heimdall.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.17]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xaAS-0001IV-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (diup-216-167.inter.net.il [213.8.216.167]) by heimdall.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 2.9.3.2) with ESMTP id BHX94539; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 00:07:07 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: walters@verbum.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> (message from Colin Walters on 16 Apr 2002 15:40:15 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2673 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2673 > From: Colin Walters > Date: 16 Apr 2002 15:40:15 -0400 > > > Of course, we _should_ do the right thing and remove it from CVS (along > > with `configure' for that matter).... > > Agreed. I don't see why we couldn't use an "autogen.sh" script like a > number of other free software projects do. Some do, others don't. As a matter of fact, Emacs is the first project I'm involved with (out of half a dozen others) where it's suggested to do this. > If there aren't any objections to this idea, I'll be happy to do it. I object that we require users to install Autoconf and Automake just to build Emacs. Those are tools for developers, not for users. To say nothing of non-Posix systems where this will add yet another level of gratuitous problems. IMHO it doesn't make sense to go through all that just to save us the ``cost'' of a 25KB file.