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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:29:51AM +0200, Ivo wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 09:43, Diego Biurrun 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.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> Judging by the comments so far, I am one of the few that actually likes 
> this. Maybe not exactly this specific patch, but I support the idea of 
> having the output being clearly distinct from autoconf configures.

Judging from comments so far few people seem to have considered the
arguments I brought forth, which indicates that I did not present them
well enough.  I'll retry in another thread.

> Roberto made a joke about a skinnable configure script, but that's actually 
> not a totally silly idea imho. I don't mean having configure skins 
> installed in the system, that would be a joke, but configure could decide 
> on how to display its output depending on the $TERM capabilities. For 
> example, on a dumb terminal, it just outputs lines of text, some spaces, 
> the result and a newline, but on a vt100 capable terminal, it could use 
> colors, like green for success, red for failure, et cetera.

Not a bad idea at all ...

> The next step could be an (x)menuconfig like approach (linux kernel) ;-))

I propose an environment variable AUTOCONF_ME_HARDER to restore the old
behavior ;-P

Diego