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On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 8:28 PM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:

> Shell uses "echo" and C uses "puts". Which one is the downgrade that didn't
> bother providing the same interface? Btw, are you using windows? If now,
> what you use provides the same interface, right? Becasue that's the way,
> everything _must_ provide the same interface, else it's bad...
>
> Not providing the same interface is a good thing, this is how you have any
> chance to make improvements and alternatives. I know this idea is far from

For simple interfaces like ./configure, there's no reason not to
provide at least
the most commonly used parts of them, it doesn't limit what you can do at all.

> most of the posters of this thread, but alternatives are good. Your personal
> preference is not the ultimate good solution.

It's nothing to do with my personal preference.  It's that there is no reason,
whatsoever, not to have ./configure --prefix=/foo do exactly what it has always
done, other than devs of other systems didn't like that syntax or didn't want to
bother.  In addition to it's intrinsic annoyingness, this sort of
thing is a strong
signal that devs are in it for themselves and user convenience is not a
priority.

> False assumption. Git is not better than cvs/svn... The truth is: many
> projects are using svn or cvs or other VCS than git, because they find those
> better. You prefer git. Git is popular. Many projects switched from whatever
> to git. Many projects switched to whatever or whatever else, or just stayed
> with whatever. Some projects switch from git to whatever. Git did not
> replace cvs or svn globally.

Well, it's tough to find new projects that don't use git.  It's success doesn't
seem like an accident.

Britton