Dear diary, on Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:17:15PM CEST, I got a letter where Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx> said that... > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:58:30AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:42:40PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > As for now, I fail to see why the current system is not adequate for git! > > > > > > I can reassure you, gazillions of people still fail to see why cvs is > > > not adequate for their project. And the ratio of devs in the > > > corporate world not knowning git to those not knowning cvs is far > > > superior to 2. And everyone here knows cvs is not more adequate than > > > git for so many tasks :) > > > > You know as well as I that this comparison is unfair. I am _NOT_ a > > corporate person. I hope that you do not judge me as a complete airhead. > > Well, I have to apologize - especially after looking closer at the > current Makefile. I think I understand now why autoconf was suggested > in the first place, but it what it would achieve would mostly moving > the ifdef's to configure.ac, which would not be such a gain anyway. Except that then I don't need to bother manually adding NO_EXPAT to the makefile on all systems I compile git on. Yes, it's not a huge bother per se, but since almost all other non-obscure projects do figure these things out automagically, git kind of stands out negatively here. "Wah, it needs me tweak the Makefile to be able to compile it." -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html