Re: Increasing regularity of build systems
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 03:54:15PM -0500, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:23:50PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:39:05AM -0700, David N. Welton wrote:
> > > Joey Hess' debhelper scripts are a good API, maybe it
> > > would be good to standardize on them to some degree.
> >
> > No.
> Uhm, WTH is that about? No, what? No, they suck? No, don't
> standardize? No, my keyboard is broken and I can't type anything
> but "n" and "o"? How about a better idea maybe? I think it's a nice
> idea, but hard to do. Have you seen Branden's rules for X? I don't
> see how you can simplify that with some cute debhelper scripts.
X isn't the average package, thankfully. The reason I said 'move
towards' is that it would be silly to try and force The Standard on a
monster like X that needs to do it a specific way. However, for your
average run of the mill package, it would be very convenient were it
to function in a more standard way, so that you pretty much knew what
was going on, without having to figure out whatever wierd specific
system a particular maintainer has used.
Ciao,
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