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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:31:37 +0200 (CEST) |
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> Vaeth <vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> |
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>> Santiago M. Mola wrote: |
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>> |
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>>> Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>>> Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> |
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>>>>> DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_USE_{WITHS,ENABLES} |
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>>>>> DEFAULT_SRC_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_PARAMS |
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>>>>> |
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>> Essentially, this is the suggestion to replace the flexible shell code |
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>> by some static variables. Besides being less intuitive and less |
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>> readable (you have to know the meaning of all the variables to |
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>> understand it) it also works only for fixed cases, e.g. if it is |
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>> only ./configure (and not ./autogen.sh or something else) which has |
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>> to be called, and only if it has to be called exactly once in the |
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>> main directory For all other cases, either *everything* has to be |
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>> done manually, or you have to introduce even more variables to cover |
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>> more cases. |
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>> |
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> |
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> The proposal is not designed to replace all cases. It's designed to |
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> replace the common 50%. |
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> |
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I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread. |
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The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier |
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syntax which is harder to read with questionable benefits. |
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