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<blockquote>Mi Sep 03 2008 12:29:26 CEST von Debarshi Ray in 0000000000.Sent Items> an "Wilfried Goesgens" <br />Betreff: Re: [Freeassociation-devel] Makefile.am issues in libical<br /><br />
<blockquote><tt>> There will be no way to patch .in's</tt><br /></blockquote>
<tt></tt><br /><tt>I don't want you to patch .ins. Fix the .ams.</tt><br /><tt></tt><br />
<blockquote><tt>> you can call bootstrap yourself if you like to.</tt><br /></blockquote>
<tt></tt><br /><tt>See, I know this dance about Autotools. bootstrap will not help</tt><br /><tt>because running recent versions of the Autotools chain will modify</tt><br /><tt>many of the .ams, .ins and configures. This will make the whole patch</tt><br /><tt>messy.</tt><br /><tt></tt><br />
<blockquote><tt>> Maybe Art can tell you which version he used.</tt><br /></blockquote>
<tt></tt><br /><tt>Automake 1.9.6. It is written in the generated files.</tt><br /><tt>Autoconf/Automake upstream believes developers should be using the</tt><br /><tt>most recent versions since distributing files generated by older (read</tt><br /><tt>potentially buggy) versions is not advisable.</tt><br /></blockquote>
<p>Using latest autofoo and its improved language features means trouble on *BSD and other systems. Been there, done that.</p>
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<blockquote><tt>> Since there is no usage of the C++ version in the outside world so far the</tt><br /><tt>> primary focus should be that its building clean without.</tt><br /></blockquote>
<tt></tt><br /><tt>This is a lame reason to not fix your Makefiles.</tt><br /></blockquote>
<p>Why? the demand is just, that it dosn't throw warnings etc. if built without the C++ Part.</p>
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<blockquote><tt>> The debian.org debs for example neither build the C++ part, nor the python</tt><br /><tt>> wrapper.</tt><br /></blockquote>
<tt></tt><br /><tt>So?</tt><br /><tt></tt><br /><tt>Happy hacking,</tt><br /><tt>Debarshi</tt><br /><tt></tt><br /><br /></blockquote>
<p>Why distribute a library nobody is using? If there is demand, theres a reason to invest time in it. Else its a waste of valuable time I can spend doing better things. (the same for python and java bindings)</p>
<p>Wilfried Goesgens</p>
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