On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 18:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > There's a big difference between having the upstream, who knows their > > configure script inside and out, > > That's a very bold assertion. ;-) Many upstream developers just copy&paste > their configure.ac scripts together from examples or other projects without > understanding them. The current maintainer might also not be the developer > who wrote the scripts (who is often the only one understanding them). Yeah, autotools stuff is very often cargo-culted. I know I'm not close to having a _complete_ understanding of it, yet I often come across cases where it's clear upstream has no real clue what the hell they're doing and have just copy-and-pasted stuff together from other projects until they got something which seemed to work. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
