modular -> monolithic

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Jan 28 21:00:01 PST 2008


On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:00:58PM +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Jan 24, 08 02:39:11 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:46:21PM +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > > There is no *official* script for fetching/building X
> > 
> > util/modular/build.sh
> > 
> > If you don't think it's good enough, that's another thing entirely.
> 
> In the same(!) mail I wrote:
> 
> > [...] I did
> > some contributions to build.sh, but I don't consider this to be even
> > remotely good enough to actually being worked on.
> 
> Please read again.

I see that, but just saying that it sucks isn't enough to discount its
existence.

Anyhow, unmaintained input drivers are now commented out.  Everything
builds fine, but I guess it just makes builds a little bit quicker.

> Just calling this script official is not even remotely helping here. If
> it was really *the* official way of building X, it should have been
> announced more prominently in the wiki.

It is the official script, by virtue of being utils/modular/build.sh.
If you have ideas on how to improve our documentation, please don't let
me stop you. :)

Cheers,
Daniel
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