Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:36:07PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:31 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>
> > Convincing upstreams to use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro with automake helps.
> >
> That would be wrong.
>
> Upstream should ship without this macro, it makes lives for most end-
> users much easier -- they change the Makefile.am and either the package
> gets updated or a warning is issued that it couldn't be.
>
> The alternative would be their change was silently ignored, which is not
> desirable.
>
> Scott
End users do not change Makefile.am or any other file like that, because
they are indeed end users, not developers. Instead
they are confused and upset by cryptical errors of autotools,
when new versions are not backcompatible as often (if not always)
and break upstream scripts.
Any developer with a minimum of brain in its head knows --enable-maintainer-mode
and knows how to change properly things in autotools scripts.
If not, he's not a developer, but a moron, and in that case is better he
left Makefile.am and all other files as they are and goes to play with
his skateboard.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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