Joachim Schrod <jschrod(a)acm.org> writes:
Steve Youngs wrote:
> VETO
> * Joachim Schrod <jschrod(a)acm.org> writes:
> > XEmacs 21.5 source patch:
> > Diff command: cvs -q -f diff -u
> > Files affected: configure.usage
> This file should be `cvs rm'. It is an old remnant of autoconf 2.13
> days and is no longer used or needed.
You know that configure.usage is prominently featured on
http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html as the reference for
configuration options, don't you? (item 5.)
> The right thing to do here is help Adrian fix the build package to
> parse the output of `./configure --help'.[1]
configure help has not enough information (yet).
My patch is band-aid, granted; but I think the chances are very small
that anybody will step up to fix build in the next few weeks, i.e.,
build will be unusable for the mid-term to long-term future. Thus, if
you cvs rm configure.usage, you should think about removing the
references to build from your documentation, too. Or add a big
disclaimer that it doesn't work.
Anyhow, I don't care much; I just wanted to help. Next time I'll spend
the evening with my wife, instead of preparing an unannounced
patch. ;-)
Joachim, you bring up a good point.
I can imagine that you are a bit frustrated about our response.
I also see no harm in committing your change to the
no-release-in-site-for-21-5-code-base.
We can certainly fix
http://www.xemacs.org/Install/index.html
in under a day, once we have a plan.
Patches to the xemacsweb CVS module are just as welcome as for the
rest of the XEmacs code base!
--
Adrian Aichner
mailto:adrianï¼ xemacs.org
http://www.xemacs.org/