[MPlayer-cvslog] r25139 - trunk/configure

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:17:49PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 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>:
> > > > Author: diego
> > > > Date: Thu Nov 22 18:11:38 2007
> > > > New Revision: 25139
> > > >
> > > > 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 if its just some old outdated stuff it probably wont do much harm to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.

Rich