From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New build process?
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:56:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkjzzv21.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CANbX364LtwkGxgKOzKrBW1h==izX9kNGQGAWCeDhSF99mbgTmg@mail.gmail.com
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 15:11, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ 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
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 [this message]
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 10:15 ` bug#9106: " Paul Eggert
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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