Stefan de Konink wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Stefan de Konink wrote:
Adding features that are enabled with #ifdef HAVE_DEVELOPMENT would be a good thing. No. Compile time options are evil, most of the time. I wanna use the standard fedora libvirt package for my work (except when hacking libvirt itself, obviously). "Oh, you can do foo, but you have to recompile with --enable-foo first." is a non-starter.
If you are a developer and want to develop something, I think it a great thing to have a developement package or distro. If you want to have the same features as others, you are no more than a user and want something stable.
Rubbish. Just because I'm a developer it doesn't mean I want unstable software. And that users don't need debugging features is wrong too. Think bug reports: Asking some user which reports a bug to flip some config bit to enable debug logging usually works fine. Asking them to rebuild the app to compile in debug logging usually doesn't fly. cheers, Gerd -- http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/