[MPlayer-dev-eng] autoconf

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Mon Mar 24 23:50:20 CET 2003


D Richard Felker III writes:
 > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:39:44PM +0100, Winner of tha face compo wrote:
 > > Paul Jarc wrote:
 > > > Autoconf's generated code is used *much* more widely than your
 > > > hand-written code, and so is more widely tested and less likely to be
 > > > buggy.
 > > 
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 > > ******  *       *    *     ****      *
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 > > 
 > > We know that feeling when we download a CVS of some stuff, and it
 > > vomits 65535 pages of missing AC_* and AM_* macros. You want that?
 > > No, never ever.
 > > 
 > > If MPlayer switches to auto*, I'm leaving the project.
 > 
 > Don't say that -- it might give some developers an incentive to
 > switch! :))))

lol :-))))

I was just going to say that, you beat me to it.. ;)

Diego



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