On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:02:55PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > > Now why that [languages] isn't part of the default build, I don't > > > know. > > > None of the stuff in languages/ is part of the default build, and I think > > it should stay that way. It seems like bad form to, by default, build > > parts of a package that the user may not want to use. > > Yes, I agree in general. But the down side is that it's neither built nor > tested by most users (including the tinderboxes!). On balance, I think we > should use bad form and build parts that users may not want to use in > order to give them a workout.
For development and testing, I believe that we should exercise (and then exorcise) all the bugs in all the languages we can find. I guess it should be a configuration option of what to build, defaulting to everything portable. Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
