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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "David Bremner" <david@tethera.net>, Xīcò <xico@atelo.org>
Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: pkg-config zlib check in 3c13bc
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 23:01:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536da4982095d_1ed7ae930416@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n0y5qo5.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>

David Bremner wrote:
> Xīcò <xico@atelo.org> writes:
> > As a side note, is there any rationale for the hand-made configure? Not
> > that I am a big fan of autoconf/cmake/whatever either...
> 
> Carl Worth had a lot of (negative) experience with autoconf when he
> started the project, which motivated him to roll his own.  Personally I
> don't really think any of the alternatives are convincingly better than
> autoconf. Of course it's one of those very subjective things.

I think Makefiles are superior to autoconf. What we have is fine.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-10  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-06 19:40 pkg-config zlib check in 3c13bc Xīcò
2014-05-06 20:31 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-05-08 12:11   ` David Bremner
2014-05-09 20:01     ` Tomi Ollila
2014-05-10  0:46       ` David Bremner
2014-05-10  1:53         ` Xīcò
2014-05-10  2:11           ` David Bremner
2014-05-10  4:01             ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-05-10  5:33             ` [PATCH] Fallback check for zlib Xīcò
2014-05-10  5:33               ` Xīcò
2014-05-10  7:58                 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-05-10  9:37                 ` David Bremner
2014-05-10 10:41                   ` Tomi Ollila
2014-05-10 18:44                     ` [PATCH] configure: add a fallback " Xīcò

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