From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>
Cc: Hongbo Zhang <hzhang295@bloomberg.net>,
yminsky@janestreet.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] PPX is harmful to our community in the long term
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:07:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170428110718.GB13305@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHvkLrNqG_uEKW_+xV9wjHbeSKg8iT7TGz7CtX7_x=b4m7D-vw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 21, Fabrice Le Fessant wrote:
> A lot of people use `autoconf` to generate `./configure` scripts, and the
> standard practice is to keep the `./configure` script so that people don't need
> to run `autoconf` to just compile and install the software. Maybe projects
This is and was a huge mistake to promote 'configure&&make' instead of
autogen.sh&&configure&&make. Having a set of uptodate autotools
installed is easy and cheap, they are not runtime dependencies. The
result of that wrongdoing is a huge pile of broken and/or incomplete configure.ac.
Do not repeat that mistake, whatever it means in the OCaml world.
Olaf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-28 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-21 19:23 Hongbo Zhang (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
2017-04-21 21:17 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2017-04-28 11:07 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2017-04-28 13:04 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2017-04-28 14:50 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-04-28 14:55 ` Jacques Carette
2017-05-11 9:37 ` Jeremie Dimino
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-23 0:06 Hongbo Zhang (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
2017-04-23 1:25 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-04-22 14:47 Hongbo Zhang (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
2017-04-22 19:47 ` Robert Muller
2017-04-23 1:30 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-04-21 21:48 Hongbo Zhang (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
2017-04-21 23:10 ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
2017-04-22 12:49 ` Serge Sivkov
2017-04-21 15:41 Hongbo Zhang (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX)
2017-04-21 16:04 ` Yotam Barnoy
2017-04-21 16:43 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2017-04-21 17:11 ` Alain Frisch
2017-04-21 18:28 ` Jeremie Dimino
2017-04-21 16:55 ` Francois BERENGER
2017-04-21 19:11 ` Yaron Minsky
2017-04-21 19:22 ` Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias
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