maintainer mode

David Collier-Brown davecb at Canada.Sun.COM
Fri Oct 30 17:33:56 GMT 1998


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > Most of what I'm doing manually would be taken care of by automake,
> > but, as we discussed in private a few weeks ago, we'd have to give up
> > a single top-level Makefile and create Makefiles in each
> > subdirectory.
> 
> is there anything wrong with that?  i would like to see this happen, as i
> could split rpc_* into libraries and just do cp into pam_ntdom etc...

	It works, but it doesn't scale.
	There's a long rant on the subject at the ``bake''
	maintainer's site, and I can testify to the 
	severity of the problem here...

--dave (or maybe it was the ``cake'' maintainer's site) c-b
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