On 7 February 2017 at 11:30, Tom St Denis <tom.stdenis at amd.com> wrote: > On 07/02/17 06:02 AM, Emil Velikov wrote: >> >> On 6 February 2017 at 22:39, StDenis, Tom <Tom.StDenis at amd.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Apparently I missed the bottom of your reply (all of the clients I have >>> outlook/gmail do top post only ...) >> >> Both Outlook and Gmail can do inline replies and plain text. There >> might be some magic required for the former though :-\ >> I would kindly suggest using inline/text when possible. > > > You'll be pleased to note I discovered (at some point) that AMD has > re-enabled imap support and I can now use a more sensible client... > > :-) > Amazing news, thank you ! >>> Ironically, I had the pkg_check originally but was told that's a >>> faux-pas. >>> >> It's a common misconception, influenced by the sheer volume of copy/paste >> :-) >> >>> >>> Unless this is breaking for actual users though it's not really a >>> priority to bikeshed the build system of a 30 file project that is meant to >>> work only on developer machines who are likely building for themselves >>> >> Up-to you really. FWIW using cmake/autoconf/etc. is a huge overkill. >> The original makefile was missing a few things* worth 10-20 lines of >> code while being noticeably smaller, quicker and easier to read ;-) > > > To be honest unless the cmake system gets in the way I'm happy if it makes > others happy. It's not easy to say the project is "open" if we NAK any and > all harmless commits that the users advocate for. > > The official stance from AMD (specifically the team I work for) is if cmake > gets in the way of AMD work we will nuke the cmake system and go back to > gmake (with pkg-config shell calls to get paths). > > Personally I'm not a big fan of overly complicated config/build systems but > since I don't do package building/etc for a living I'll defer to the > opinions of others within reason. > Bth, you're not missing anything much by not tinkering with autoconf/cmake/etc. It's just a bikeshed fest with overly biased people on each side ;-) Thanks Emil
