Re: Automatic upgrading of WC versions and the pain it causes

Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk> writes:

> The advantage of a configure option are:
>
> It's sticky. I run configure directly very rarely - more frequently,
> I reconfigure by running config.nice,

Me too.

> which helpfully captures all the
> configure options, but not the environment variables.

Use 'configure CFLAGS=-DSVN_XXX' and it's a configure argument, not an
environment variable, and thus it's sticky.

> It's discoverable. I must admit that I've been assuming that this is
> something that most people here would want to use on a day-to-day basis,

I would not use it.

> unlike the debugging options Philip mentions - or is it just Max and I
> who are prone to accidental wc upgrades?

I've not had a problem so far.

-- 
Philip Martin
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