Re: Remove generated VM from git?
| From: | Florian Anderiasch | Date: | Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:27:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Remove generated VM from git? | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On 26.08.2014 22:30, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2014, at 21:08, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
>
>> That would make building PHP for non-internals person harder and the
>> list of dependencies they need to get right longer. While providing zero
>> added value. And yes, there are a lot of non-internals persons building
>> PHP. Sometimes they may even use git.
>
> Why would a non-internals person want to build PHP from git? That’s just making things harder
> on themselves. Besides PHP itself (should my proposal succeed), you need other extra dependencies,
> including a lexer generator if Nikita’s proposal succeeds.
>
Why would an internals person (for various vague definitions of this
term) install php only because they want to build it? Maybe I'm the
exception here but I am regularly building various versions of php on my
laptop without having any version *installed*.
I also would prefer to keep this out of the dependencies.
Greetings,
Florian