Re: Heavy weight deps (was y scaling error)

[<pl...@pi...>]

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:16:22 +0100, Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...>  =

wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, pl...@pi... quoted:
>
>> >> It's a pity that enable/disable and with/without aren't treated
>> >> as synonyms.  How is anyone supposed to remember which one goes
>> >> with which option?
>> >
>> > Not at all.  Just like nobody is supposed to remember the list of
>> > available --enable/--disable/--with{,out} options.  That's what
>> > ./configure --help is for (./configure --help=3Dshort if you alread=
y  =

>> know
>> > the generic configure options).
>
> and wrote:
>>
>> So no-one is likely to remember the whole list, but accepting we
>> can remember a few we need to include/exclude it would be nice
>> not add to the burden with apparently arbitary on/off option
>> names. Is there a feature here we are missing the point of?
>
> I'm not sure this is totally compelling, but I think the
> traditional distinction in the autoconf context is
>
> * enable/disable is a simple binary feature toggle
>
> * with/without implies inclusion or not of functionality provided
>   by a third-party library or app, and implies an optional
>   parameter to "with", namely the path to the third-party
>   something, as in
>
>   --with-ssl=3D/opt/openssl
>
> Allin Cottrell
>

Thanks for that explaination, that does go someway to explaining the  =

difference but does not seem to apply generally to gnuplot since several=
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"with" options are not due to external deps.

non exhaustive list:

   --with-cwdrc            check current directory for .gnuplot file,
                           normally disabled for security reasons
   --with-row-help         format help and subtopic tables by row (defau=
lt)
   --without-row-help      format help and subtopic tables by column

It may help to remember some cases though.

Thx.