[asterisk-dev] [asterisk-commits] rizzo: trunk r89452 - in /trunk: acinclude.m4 configure configure.ac

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:10:50PM -0600, critch wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 11:32 -0500, Simon Perreault wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:16:33 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > So you would want every user who isntalls Asterisk from SVN to have
> > > autoconf and automake? (what versions exactly?)
> > 
> > Is a user who uses SVN really a user or something more? Is making the 
> > Autotools a prerequisite for SVN users too much to ask?
> > 
> > Of course release and snapshot tarballs would contain a generated configure 
> > since people who don't use SVN are not expected to have a full development 
> > setup.
> 
> Having autotools isn't that big of a burden compared to all the rest of

it is actually a big burden. there are 145 different version of each of the
tools, some of which are incompatible with each other,
and not all build on all platforms.

cheers
luigi