[XviD-devel] Bootstrap

[Christoph Lampert]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Edouard Gomez wrote:
> Christoph Lampert (chl at math.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> > Yes, of course I read that, but I find it rather strange to remove all the
> > makefiles by an advanced automatic "autoconf/automake" system, and then
> > every user except for Debian Linux (which I doubt is the majority of
> > non-windows users) has to edit the file by hand before even bootstrap
> > runs. 
> 
> I'm sure you  know CVS is meant for development :-)  so CVS versions are
> not for  "users" but  rather for  developers that want  to test  the CVS
> version. These  users know what  to do, "joe"  user will not,  but "joe"
> user should use releases and not CVS.

Can we agree that _I'm_ just too lazy to edit bootstrap.sh every time I do
a fresh checkout? 

> Btw  your  patch is  welcome  to  make  bootstrap.sh more  "all  distro"
> friendly.

Hooray! ;-) 


gruel