Hi, Philip Brown <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to encourage the developers, to make it easy for future users. > That should be the goal of good software development: to make it easier for > users, rather than easier for the programmers. > > That is to say, making things easier for the programmers is great, as long > as it doesnt come at the EXPENSE of the users. your plan of encouraging people is doomed to fail unless you change your attitude. We put a lot of effort into maintaining our tree and making compilation as easy as possible. We have spent a lot of our free time to make GIMP compile on platforms we not even have access too. This has been possible because people that use such platforms sent detailed descriptions of their problems and suggestion on how to improve them. Some even sent patches which is even more appreciated. You on the other hand show up and without deeper knowledge state that we are doing things all wrong because it doesn't work for you. You question the use of pkg-config as if we have a choice whether to use it or not to use it. You didn't even read it's man-page to inform yourself about it's purpose. Salut, Sven
