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On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:39, Max Bowsher wrote: > I'd like to resubmit my 'alternative registry name' patch for setup. It's > not something that should go into released versions, but is the kind of > thing that a maintainer is likely to find useful. I'd like to have a new > #define (say MAINTAINER_FEATURES) and AC_ARG_ENABLE > (say --enable-maintainer-features) for things that a maintainer could > compile into their normal everyday setup, and activate on the command line > as required (as distinct from DEBUG, which is for stuff that causes > extremely verbose logging, or is otherwise undesirable for an everyday > binary). > > Comments? Yes, I'm still not convinced that a new global define is needed. Can you elaborate on *what* will be triggered by that define, and *how* it difers from debugging output. Secondly, maintainer only features should not be visible as configure arguments - add them to your CXXFLAGS command line parameter, or tweak Makefile.am. The reason for this is that users *will* turn on configure parameters in the assumption that they are for users. I've seen this happen before, with disasterous consequences :[. As for the alternative registry name, I've already agree in principle, there was an email about what was needed a while ago :}. Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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