Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

[Joel Uckelman]

Thus spake Chad Brown:
> 
> On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > 
> > Now you can no longer say --with-cyrus-sasl=[DIR]; you have
> > to say --with-cyrus-sasl and use CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS to add any options you
> > need for getting SASL from an alternate location.
> 
> While this isn't a big deal personally, I will hazard a guess that
> this change is unacceptable to nearly every package distro.  I don't
> know that we care, but I'd further guess that they'll either add the
> functionality back in or (more likely) not include these versions of
> nmh.

This strikes me as a very bad thing if it really would result in nmh
being dropped from Linux distros, as it raises a barrier to trying out
nmh.
 
-- 
J.