Hi, On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:06:25PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > May I register a complaint? This is yet _another_ dependency. > > Unlike other dependencies, I think it's quite natural to make it a > conditional dependency. If you have pcre, you get more featureful > regular expressions. If you don't, you get posix regular expressions. > Do you object to a few extra lines in the Makefile? Yes, I do. Not because of the extra lines, but because of the inconsistent interface. We included libxdiff _exactly_ to ensure consistency between different git installations (remember, diff behaves quite differently on different platforms, and even GNU diff behaves differently depending on which version you use). So no, I do not like the idea of using git on some random box, only to realize that what I have grown used to does not work. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Feb 09 12:04:40 2007
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