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On 23 Mar 2015 05:46, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > i don't have a problem with requiring people to use the same exact > > version. > > > i do think that requiring them to build/install by hand is > > > unreasonable. it's pretty rare (by design) for projects to do this > > > sort of thing (commit the generated autotools), so it's pretty rare > > > for this to be an issue, so it's pretty rare for people to be > > > required to manage this. it's a throw back to pre-distro days when > > > people were used to building/install software themselves, and it's > > > unnecessary friction for new people to get into the development > > > process today. death by a thousand cuts and all that. > > > > It's only a barrier for people who need to change the configure.ac or > > Makefile.am files, which is not most developers. > > Agreed. i hit it on every machine i want to develop on, and i don't have the luxury of running Gentoo on every system > Also, I don't think that building autoconf and automake once every > few years, and then using that to generate the files is really that > much of a barrier. multiplied by every machine you develop on, and every user that wants to make their own contribution here -mike
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