On 2005-02-11, at 04:23, Daniel Berlin wrote:
It was perfectly fair. He's complaining the source has dependencies, and
uses configure to find out what is available, and complains when it
can't find the things it absolutely depends on.
Because apr and apr-util are providing things subversion doesn't need and
because there is no application on my system needing them,
I was complaining about the inability to control whatever I get those features
sucked in or not.
(He neglected to mention that it tells you what to get and where to get it, including urls, of course)
Because I didn't complain about this at all.
He's also just flat out not reading. He complains it doesn't tell him what he's missing, giving the example of the database backend.
No! I'm complaining that it doesn't allow me to control what feature set I get.
And I was complaining about the number of artificial dependencies the system
is introducing.
I wasn't. I was simply stating that if one is going to complain about
having to get source to build from source, one is in the wrong business.
Where did I say that?
Because every user program depends on some library or another.
Which is of course false.
This one tlels you what the libraries are and where to get them, without
having to google around to find the real source.
This wasn't the problem. Again the problem was how to control the feature set
during the source code setup stage.
I also have built svn on an osx machine with *nothing* but the developer
tools installed, with absolutely no trouble.
And you didn't have control about the features it contains.
You didn't mention that it needs apr and apr-util *installed* at least...
