[MPlayer-cvslog] r25139 - trunk/configure

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:38:32PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:17:49PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:37:29PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:39:44PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > > 2007/11/22, diego <subversion at mplayerhq.hu>:
> > > > >
> > > > > Log:
> > > > > Remove ! operator hack, we require a POSIX-compatible-shell.
> > > > 
> > > > I think this is the first time in MPlayer history when we intensionally
> > > > decrease compatibility for no apparent reason.
> > > 
> > > Agree. I oppose this change. [...]
> > 
> > i tend to agree as well ...
> > btw which OS / shells are affected by the change?
> > if its just some old outdated stuff it probably wont do much harm to
> > remove, OTOH if this means loosing support for some major shell/os it
> > seems like a really stupid change. Also it will be used as argument
> > in favor of auto* if our configure cannot be used on some system where
> > auto* can
> 
> Indeed, if we are hoping that this will eventually evolve into a
> viable general-purpose autoshit replacement, we should strive for
> compatibility with ALL historical shells, not just POSIX ones.

MPlayer's configure has no chance of evolving into such a thing.

FFmpeg's configure has slightly higher chances of accomplishing such a
feat if somebody had the inclination to work on extending it in this
direction, but it also requires a POSIX shell.

Diego