From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: config.in Date: 16 Apr 2002 23:21:24 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87n0w3baqz.fsf@lgh163a.kemisten.nu> References: <87g01vbhzi.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <1018986015.10524.108.camel@space-ghost> <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018992247 6907 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 21:24:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: walters@verbum.org, 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 16xaQp-0001nI-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:24:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16xajC-0006D0-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:43:07 +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 16xaQo-0002As-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lgh163a.kemisten.nu ([212.32.172.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xaOU-00024V-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by lgh163a.kemisten.nu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16xaOD-0001Af-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:21:25 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <1676-Wed17Apr2002000044+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 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:2675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2675 * Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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. Should users use the CVS version of Emacs? Any released version should, of course, include the generated configure script. -- Alfred M. Szmidt