From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New build process?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:48:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=50j9P2e1Arn75e3XEvyeRhYq+83afWtv_q5vkPCM6P1iSzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sjpsdtaa.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27 2011, Tim Cross wrote:
>
>> Still, my main pint is I don't think we should get too carried away
>> trying to automate all of this. It is a common requirement and while
>> some may have been caught out, it is something you should expect when
>> working this close to the development layer. Efforts were made to
>> communicate the changes on this list (by you IIRC Eli) and there is
>> information in the INSTALL.BZR file. My objection with trying to
>> automate or eliminate this simple step is that the solution can often
>> be worse than the problem and adds just another point of potential
>> failure in a step which is already simple and straight-forward (once
>> you know about it!).
>
> +1
>
>
>> However, if we can rename the file or make
>> another copy of the instructions under a name which the majority feel
>> is more likely to be noticed, great - all for that.
>
> I don't see a big problem with the file name, but eventually you could
> merge its content into INSTALL and then remove INSTALL.BZR.
>
Except i don't believe you need to do this step when installing from a
tar ball - the configure script is usually provided. Therefore,
putting the instructions in the same file could confuse those building
from official non-evelopment releases (I'm assuming thats why they are
separated into two files now).
As you say, it not a big problem and I think its a communication issue
rather than a technical one and requires (possibly) requires a
communication fix rather than a technical one.
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 18:42 New build process? Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-26 18:47 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-26 20:00 ` David Reitter
2011-07-26 20:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-27 2:58 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27 3:40 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 7:58 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:25 ` Peter Münster
2011-07-27 8:48 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2011-07-27 9:43 ` Peter Münster
2011-07-27 8:51 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 10:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 13:11 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 13:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-27 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-28 12:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-07-28 12:46 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29 12:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-27 14:58 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 16:14 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-27 20:27 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-28 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-27 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 8:02 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 8:13 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 8:31 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-27 8:54 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 9:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 9:15 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-27 9:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-26 20:24 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-26 22:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-07-27 12:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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