coleman(_at_)math(_dot_)gatech(_dot_)edu wrote:
(I haven't decide whether it should be a runtime or compile-time option).
Please don't ADD any compile-time options! Compile-time options are evil.
Not everyone in the universe wants to compile every piece of software they
use.
hear, hear!
Compile time options are evil. Apart from making configuring and testing
hard (oops, want to change this option needs recompile) it makes binary
distributions infeasible.
Keep in mind that many people now download binary distributions (very
popular for Linux and also for Solaris). Do we need 2^n binary
distributions (where n is the number of binary options)? I think not.
Casper