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Auteur: Svante Signell
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Experiencing with GtkBuilder
On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 22:50 +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@???> writes:
> > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 19:36 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> >
> > Well, as long as you work with configure.ac, Makefile.am and confiugre.h.in
> > level for files you won't have any problems with make/autotools. The rest is
> > mostly hidden (and by now stable) from a user perspective.
>
> From a user perspective, auto* is a major PITA because ten open source
> projects using auto* will require some power-of-ten combinations of
> mutually incompatible version of autothis, autothat and
> autosomethingelse


I should have written package developers/upstream of course, users don't have to
bother at all (in an ideal world). As I wrote, of course the packages shouldn't
use outdated versions of configuration files or auto* tools, that's their
responsibility to fix.