On 28 Jun 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:
> OK, I see. I was still under the impression that Cygnus was wrapping
> the trees, I had not understood users were likely to assemble trees.
When a user downloads gcc, it already has a configure script
that was generated and checked into the CVS. Besides, how would
a user regen a configure script without having autoconf installed?
If you are talking about a regen with an older version of autoconf
then folks could not do that, but I do not see what this has
to do with anything.
> OK, I'm ``convinced'' :)
>
> Alexandre> Yeeeeahh
>
> Hey, wait that I send the message before answering! :)
>
> Do you think there is really a chance that in a not so distant future,
> in this galaxy, we will reimplement the behavior we have in CVS? I
> fear we will never be able to, for instance because of the build
> defaulting to host.
If you go back to the old way of doing it, then I doubt it
will ever get changed. Folks are going to trot out the
same old "It is just wrong to change it, we have been doing
it this way for years" argument and you are right back where
you started.
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
