On 01/23/2011 09:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > It sounds harsh to me to ask every one who builds out of VCS to have > to climb such a steep curve.
I dunno, I just started doing some Emacs development after about five years' absence, and it was a pretty steep learning curve for me. For example, nowhere is it stated that one really should use the obsolescent Python version 2.6.6, and that the current Python versions 2.7.1 and 3.1.3 do not work well with the current bzr version. I had to find that out myself, the hard way, by making hard-to-diagnose screwups. By comparison, the autotools requirements of Gnulib are relatively tame; they are better documented and they don't rely on people having older-than-current versions. Anyway, the point is moot, no? Right now the Emacs VCS builds out of the box with the same tools as before. Maintainers don't need to have automake installed unless they also want to do gnulib-related development, for which automake is required anyway.
