[MPlayer-dev-eng] autoconf
Paul Jarc
prj at po.cwru.edu
Mon Mar 24 19:34:53 CET 2003
Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:
> Now i see no advantages of switching to autoconf,
Autoconf's generated code is used *much* more widely than your
hand-written code, and so is more widely tested and less likely to be
buggy. It also provides additional features that users are accustomed
to having, from other packages.
> especially that no one of the active developers knows autoconf
> syntax,
So this takes us back to "someone must volunteer to do the work". I'm
considering it.
> and in my experience autoconf versions are not backward compatible
> sometimes, so running it is a nightmare, and as mplayer is used by
> users as cvs version, it may be a problem for them.
I've heard that the situation has improved in recent versions, but I
don't really know. Regardless, there are some projects that store the
autoconf-generated files in CVS. That way, everyone gets an
up-to-date configure script without having to run the right version of
autoconf themselves.
paul
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