[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries?
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Autotools-generated 'configure' & 'Makefile.in' considered binaries? |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:06:38 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 01-04-2022 om 10:58 [+0200]:
>> As a first milestone, maybe we could start running ‘autoreconf’ more
>> often, for packages higher in the graph. We could change the
>> ‘bootstrap’ build phase to do that unless it’s explicitly turned off.
>> It may turn out to be a Sisyphean task though…
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Changing all pre-existing packages, maybe. But doing this for new
> packages (reducing review effort) and perhaps when a package is updated
> (for purity) should be feasible I think? Then gradually things would
> improve and eventually(TM) doing the switch in the bootstrap phase may
> become feasible ...
Yes, we could do that as a first step (in fact it’s already happening as
some projects no longer distribute tarballs).
What do maintainers think of that policy?
Thanks,
Ludo’.