On 02/11/10 08:54, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:18:46 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: >> I've now got configure autodetecting Qt4, and created an "automagic" >> patch. Things are still partly broken because to fix things properly I >> need to get rid of OOO_WIDGET_FLAGS, and that's probably a big job ... >> Adds a new --enable-automagic option. > Shouldn't automagic be the default? ie building support for whatever is > available on the machine sounds a sensible default to > me. People/Packagebuilder can still manually enable/disable support fot > things. > I get the impression it isn't. Do we really want to enable a bunch of obscure options by default? cf the discussion we just had about binfilter (although I gather that's slightly different :-)
Anyways, we've now got the option - configure will by default set up a sane bunch of options, while automagic will force all defaults to either "on" or "off". In particular, there's a page on the gentoo wiki (I've put a pointer to it in our development wiki) that says that automatically enabling things can be a packager's nightmare. They've only got to miss a "disable" for some weird option they happen to have installed, and next thing they know they've shipped a package that depends on this weird option - AND DOESN'T DOCUMENT THAT FACT! That's why, imho, "disable-automagic" is important (and that's why it's called magic not matic :-). If that happens, it's now an upstream bug, not a silly packager. And it's easy for us to fix each option as we add it, not so easy for them to spot we've enabled something obscure. > /me shrugs. Not sure. > > Sebastian Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
