From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TODO additions
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:18:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E186wTo-00030Z-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzq8z0hyvcn.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (message from Dave Love on 29 Oct 2002 18:04:56 +0000)
> * Use automake and use autoconf fully, preferably avoiding src/{m,s}
> entirely. [Maintaining the build process _is_ a major problem.]
>
> I don't think this would make it easier. It might be harder,
> because it would require solving every problem in a general way.
The whole point is to use general solutions, most of which are already
available and easy to follow.
When Autoconf handles a specific issue, it is a good idea to switch
over to using Autoconf to handle it. But I'd be extremely surprised
if Autoconf handled all the issues that Emacs needs to know about.
To implement an Autoconf test for any given issue might be easy or it
might be hard. Even when it seems easy enough to write the Autoconf
test, verifying that it really tests the right thing is substantial
effort. This is not worth the trouble, when the code is stable
and not giving us trouble.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-30 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 12:41 TODO additions Dave Love
2002-10-19 3:24 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-21 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-22 16:47 ` Dave Love
2002-10-21 13:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-21 13:21 ` Oliver Scholz
2002-10-22 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-22 17:03 ` Dave Love
2002-10-27 23:38 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-29 18:04 ` Dave Love
2002-10-29 22:09 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-31 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-05 10:59 ` Dave Love
2002-10-30 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-31 7:21 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-10-31 9:12 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-01 9:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-01 13:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-03 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-31 18:19 ` Dave Love
2002-11-02 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-11 20:15 ` Dave Love
2002-11-12 13:18 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-14 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-17 22:47 ` Dave Love
2002-10-30 17:18 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-10-31 18:42 ` Dave Love
2002-11-02 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-05 11:37 ` Dave Love
2002-10-29 19:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-31 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-31 18:10 ` Dave Love
2002-11-02 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-05 11:33 ` Dave Love
2002-11-07 4:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-07 10:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-08 12:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-11 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-11-13 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-17 22:49 ` Dave Love
2002-11-11 20:25 ` Dave Love
2002-11-13 11:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-17 22:56 ` Dave Love
2002-11-18 19:09 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-20 17:10 ` Dave Love
2002-11-21 17:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-24 18:57 ` Dave Love
2002-11-25 12:36 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-27 23:38 ` Dave Love
2002-11-29 15:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-29 19:57 ` Dave Love
2002-12-01 9:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-02 14:02 ` Dave Love
2002-12-05 15:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-09 19:03 ` Dave Love
2002-12-12 17:09 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-15 17:23 ` Dave Love
2002-12-01 9:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-02 14:05 ` Dave Love
2002-12-02 15:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-06 16:41 ` movemail re-write [was Re: TODO additions] Dave Love
[not found] ` <E18LD0N-0004Rc-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-12-10 23:42 ` Dave Love
2002-12-16 10:49 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2002-12-17 18:44 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-18 9:35 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2002-12-19 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-02 15:47 ` TODO additions Richard Stallman
2002-12-03 10:58 ` Dave Love
2002-12-05 15:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-29 15:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-27 15:13 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-11-28 1:43 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-28 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-11-29 15:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-29 15:59 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-11-30 14:05 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-07 4:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-11 20:19 ` Dave Love
2002-11-13 11:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-11-17 22:47 ` Dave Love
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