[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] de-autoconf configure

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:11:10AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 May 2006 09:43:24 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > people always think we have an autoconfigure script.  Who's to blame
> > them, the output looks just too similar.  Since FFmpeg has never
> > suffered from this problem I thought we might as well give in and fix
> > what I would call a usability problem.  I made a preliminary patch.
> 
> You forgot the bikeshed warning :)

lol, yes :)

> I actualy don't know whether i like this or not.
> But i don't have any technical/logical arguments.

I hope to stop people from thinking that our configure was made with
autoconf and has the same semantics.  As we all know this has been a
recurring problem over the years.  None of the current users should be
harmed by the change, while things should be clearer for newcomers.

Diego