Marc Espie wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:51:22PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
[ a rant ]
You're completely wrong. Programmers can very well use our system (and
they do). The pkgconfig approach is flawed, it doesn't allow for some
things we would do. The gnu configure approach is worse. It has a lot
of assumptions that are quite wrong, in some times disturbingly so.
If you prefer that approach, go back to using gnu linux.
Auto-detecting piles of shit without any user control, or with very poor
user control, like GNU configure allows, is a receipe for disaster.
It does NOT help the user, contrarily to what you might think.
I'm going to drop this, if you folks will be kind enough to let me. I
just wish that folks would leave off the kind of response "you're wrong"
and instead try "this is why you're wrong, and this is the right way".
It's a lot more useful.
I am sorry if I've started some mini-war.
