One doesn't have to suffer the problems and learn the option exists afterwards.
In the end I can understand why a new feature might not be default to start with - until a lot of people have used it and are sure that it works everywhere. Cheers, Tim On 29 April 2013 20:21, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:33:10 +0100 > > From: Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, "bug-make@gnu.org" <bug-make@gnu.org> > > > > Come now - the broken excuse is an excuse. There's plenty of crap free > > software out there and some poor bastard trying to build it who can't > > change the source because the people who own it think it should be make's > > problem. > > Look, no one is claiming that this feature is useless. I just spent > two days researching and implementing it on Windows, something I > wouldn't do if I thought it wasn't important to have. > > What we are talking here is whether to have this turned on by default. > I hope you are not going to claim that adding -O to a Make command > line to get the new behavior is too hard. By contrast, having to type > -Onone to have the _old_ behavior back might very well annoy a few. > -- You could help some brave and decent people to have access to uncensored news by making a donation at: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/friends/
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