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Re: [Groff] new automake system
From: |
Blake McBride |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] new automake system |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:24:46 -0500 |
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> > IMO, if the new make system requires a download of something that is
>> > already built and installed on my machine, then the new make system
>> > is significantly worse than using the standard ./configure.
>>
>> What Bertrand is working on affects the bootstrapping process, this
>> is, building everything from the `git' repository. Yes, this now
>> needs a lot more of resources, at the advantage of much easier
>> maintainance for the developer.
>
>
>
> Making it more dependent on versions of other software that are
> _currently_ available on the Internet means that older copies of groff will
> no longer build when those other repositories have moved, are no longer
> available, or old versions of those libraries are not where expected. We
> are becoming increasingly dependent on a moving target. ./configure had a
> much less problem with this. This is a big issue.
>
Except for _actively_ maintained software, this new build method increases
the software fragility. This is bad.
>
>
>
>
>> However, it doesn't affect the
>> end-user build from the created tarball, which will be exactly the
>> same as before.
>>
>>
>> Werner
>>
>
>
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system,
Blake McBride <=
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/25
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/25
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Dave Kemper, 2014/09/27
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/27
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Dave Kemper, 2014/09/27