[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] news: add entry about stricter configure behavior

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun <
andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 10.12.2016 23:22, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > 2016-12-10 19:47 GMT+01:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <
> andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
> >> Suggested-by: Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  src/index | 7 +++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
> >> index c203676..8f533f5 100644
> >> --- a/src/index
> >> +++ b/src/index
> >> @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@
> >>      News
> >>    </h1>
> >>
> >> +  <h3 id="stricterconfigure">December 10th, 2016, stricter configure
> behavior.</h3>
> >> +  <p>
> >> +    The configure script now fails if autodetect-libraries are
> requested but not found.
> >> +  </p>
> >> +  <p>
> >> +    If for example SDL headers are not available, '--enable-sdl2' will
> cause a configure failure.
> >
> > Please push, esp. since the relevant change is already in git.
>
> This trivial news patch already got way more comments than the original
> patch series, which gives me the impression that people care more about
> the website than the actual code. :-/


That's unfair and somewhat offensive to those of us that commented in this
thread but do more than enough to keep our tree healthy and fresh. We might
not care specifically about configure patches, but we may certainly well
care what goes on our website, since that reflects very specifically and
very focused on all of us.

Ronald