From kde-core-devel Tue May 01 17:36:34 2001 From: Guillaume Laurent Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:36:34 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Possible cause of kivio problems X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98873873013054 On Tuesday 01 May 2001 18:56, Dirk Mueller wrote: > On Die, 01 Mai 2001, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > > I really doubt the average developer is able to look through an > > automake-generated Makefile and find an error in "a matter of minutes". > > you look into Makefile.am of course ;-) When the problem is in the Makefile.am, I consider myself lucky :-). > writing a mail could help. even within minutes most of the time ;-) Yes, I don't dispute that. But in practice it's not 100% reliable. Having a fairly good solution in case a problem happens is not a substitute to preventing the problem in the first place. > This wasn't a random commit by a beginner, but still everybody is only > human. you can not avoid that, even with an ACL, because then I'll break > kdelibs compilation inside khtml another time and you can start crying > again ;-) I agree, ACLs are the wrong solution to this problem. I never claimed they were, just that I understood why Shawn wanted them. -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org