Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes a écrit :
| > "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | > > don't decide these things, it was (and still is) my personal
| > opinion.
| > | >
| > | > Nobody said otherwise, that's what I meant. Saying nothing is an
| > | > implicit approval, except for the project manager. An quite frankly I
| > | > don't understand what's so scaring about having a parallel build system
| > | > that do not touch _at_ _all_ the present system.
| > | | Exactly. I know scons is not perfect right now, but I do not
| > expect
| > | anyone who does not like it to use it either. Why cannot Lars and
| > | other autotools fans just *ignore* the scons stuff? (That is why I
| > | submit it withoug asking.)
| > And that was bad...
| > | What is so bad about giving people a choice?
| > Half-baked sulutions that we not even know if we are going to use
| > are a
| > curse.
|
| The KDE project had lived with _four_ build system at the same time in
| svn for _months_ before they choose one. I reckon LyX could live with
| two during a couple of month and see how it goes.
But they _must_ work.
Who is going to do the work on scons?
| > | What is terribly wrong to let windows developers compile lyx
| > | quicker and easier?
| > Nothing per se, but you are very wrong to focus only on windows.
| > _IFF_ we are going to change the build system we must chane to
| > something that works for all targets.
| > | I will not have time to maintain a branch.
| > So who will make scons work with unix/linux and all the
| > build/distribution/checking/testing targets that we have in auto*?
| > If the answer is "Not me" then scons has no place in svn.
|
| That mentality of one man/one feature is plain *wrong*. Of course Bo
| cannot test for every target on the moon by himself. Completeness will
| only happen if testing takes place. Without it being in trunk, this
| will simply never happen.
Have you tried? In ernest?
| > | I was trying to save *me
| > | and people would will welcome such a choice* some time by using a more
| > | flexible build system for me, not to spend more time.
| > I do not care to much about "me" I care for "us"; as a whole.
|
| Wrong, you don't care about us, that is, Bo, me and whoever would like
| to try compiling LyX under windows.
That is not 'us', that is 'you'.
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Lgb
