Re: New libsvn_delta dependencies in tests

Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:

> Originally, I thought so too, but now I am of two minds. While it would
> be nice to just have to put @SVN_TESTS_EDITOR_LIBS@ to get everything
> you need. Why does this not apply also to say, @SVN_LIBSVN_DELTA@
> including libexpat, libsvn_subr, etc. If we were to go this way, I say
> it should then apply to all the @SVN_*@ variables, but if we do this,
> then people will probably redundantly put things there, not realizing
> that something else will automiatically grab it.

Yeah, I agree. Sure, we *could* compress all the build variables down
to a single variable. But I think that makes things less readable. I
think it's important to see a real list of dependencies, even if most
targets have the same list. Our build system is already
overly-abstracted as it is. =)
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:20 2006