CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE
Jon Disnard
diz at linuxpowered.com
Tue Jul 13 15:40:38 PDT 2004
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>In message <40F45FBC.6010709 at corrupt.co.nz>, Drew Broadley writes:
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>>If you are so much so complaining about the lack of 27 extra characters
>>typed by users/admins,
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>That is not the point we (or at least I) are complaining about, the
>point is that neither removing the world target nor making it blatter
>out a big multicolor linux style README is not a solution.
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>The correct solution is the add whatever it takes to make the world
>target fail if it is unsafe.
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Ok that sounds good. I still think a verbose warning at the initiation
of "make world" is a good thing though, but possibly only if DESTDIR is
not something aside from root.
So possibly a system to parse UPDATING, or whatever, for ABI changes and
then halting the installworld stages of the world target?
That seems good and bad, because sometimes people checkin without any
documentation, and this idea would absolutely require anything with a
potential to cause hazard to be documented with (or before) the
associated checkin. Are all the commiters diligent enough to do that? Is
there some other way we can have this idea of a "smart make world" that
acknowledges the case of lazy documentation?
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