Miles Bader <miles@xxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> Because there is no configure script provided, and because my autoconf >>>> is considered too old, I simply can't start the build process because >>>> I can't generate the missing configure script. >>> >>> Er, why don't you upgrade to a less ancient version of autoconf...? >> >> Please do not encourage the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily. > > Huh? I'm not "encouraging the use of configure/autoconf unnecessarily", > I'm encouraging the use of a non-obsolete version of autoconf, should he > wish to use it (and he's the one that brought it up, so...). > >> Use of configure is tolerated, not encouraged. > > You're certainly welcome to discourage people from using it, but I see > no reason to do so myself. Hmm, after reading my message again, I did sound rather misleading to solicit a response like that from a gnu person, so let me try again. Please do not encourge use of configure/autoconf *in this project*. Use of configure *in this project* is not encouraged, it is merely tolerated. You are of course welcome to use configure and autoconf yourself for your own projects, not here, but that goes without saying, I would think. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
