From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36A01F9E0 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726271AbgD1FgF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:36:05 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:41848 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1725792AbgD1FgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:36:04 -0400 Received: (qmail 18269 invoked by uid 109); 28 Apr 2020 05:36:04 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with SMTP; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:36:04 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 31496 invoked by uid 111); 28 Apr 2020 05:47:26 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:47:26 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:36:02 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Elijah Newren Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , Sibi Siddharthan , Sibi Siddharthan via GitGitGadget , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] CMake build system for git Message-ID: <20200428053602.GA2376380@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20200427200852.GC1728884@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20200427220955.GA1747507@coredump.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 03:23:22PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > > If it lived in contrib/ that might strike a good balance between making > > it available for people to experiment with, but not having people > > confuse it for the official build system. > > Maybe we could move configure.ac and config.mak.in into contrib as well? Maybe. I have a feeling that most folks who use autoconf do it from the tarballs, which have the generated ./configure anyway. -Peff