On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:26:43 +0200, Niko Rönkkö <ron...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Renamed all extensions to --with-ext-* Thanks, that makes sense, I just didn't get to it. I'd just still argue for --enable rather than --with. > If "we do want to present them together in ./configure --help", > then they all must be a same type of. > => Changed all extensions to be AC_ARG_WITH --enable is being used to choose "optional features" which certainly applies here (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/autoconf/autoconf_131.html) --with is used if you require external software and decides which external software is being used. (http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/autoconf/autoconf_130.html) So --enable is IMHO what we really want here. What I would prefer even more is a grouping feature, ie present all extensions in a group, present all Windows-specific options in a group etc. But I did not find if that is possible. Does any auto-wizard know? > Also: We don't want to break builders scripts (as Michael Meeks said) so > deprecated old options not removed but commented instead. While I agree for the 3.3 branch. I don't think that doubling the output of ./configure --help is going to be helpful. It complains when being invoked with an unknown option anyway. But we can deprecate it for a while and remove it a bit later. shrug. Sebastian _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
