Re: ./configure

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr>  on Mon, 30 Jul 2001
|         Well, you actually *want* to keep configure in CVS because it is no
| different from people to people, and it's somewhat insane to make
| thousands of people regenerate the *same* file. It also has the advantage
| that CVS simple users (not developers) don't have to know autoconf and
| friends to build gnus.

"CVS versions" and "simple user" do not go together.  If you are using
something out of a CVS tree then you are either a) an advanced user, b) a
developer, or c) a tester, all three of which should have at least a basic
understanding of how automake work.  If you are none of the above then you
probably should not be using anything out of a CVS tree.

Besides "./autogen.sh" is not that difficult, and it runs configure for you
automatically.  That is how most of the projects that I use out of CVS
trees handle things.  The only one I don't is Mozilla, which has its own
config mechanism.
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