Change to README ought to be reverted

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Wed Jul 27 00:33:44 UTC 2011


Looking at 'git log' in master this evening, I noticed this commit:

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git show 66e6aee5d80ac89271b25e0053ae5c73af41d386
commit 66e6aee5d80ac89271b25e0053ae5c73af41d386
Author: Moritz Lenz <moritz at faui2k3.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 26 17:15:14 2011 +0200

     recommend Configure.pl --optimize

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0ef7bc0..9af227a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ INSTRUCTIONS
  For now, unpack your Parrot tarball, (if you're reading this, you've
  probably already done that) and type

-    perl Configure.pl
+    perl Configure.pl --optimize

  to run the Configure script. The Configure.pl script extracts 
configuration
  from the running perl5 program.  You may need to explicitly tell 
Configure.pl

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I object to this change for two reasons.

First, on one platform I use, Parrot does not PASS 'make test' when I 
configure with '--optimize'.

Second, I think a change in our README about how our users ought to 
start out building Parrot really warrants more discussion than what 
little I could find on #parrot today.  It appears to have been a 
spur-of-the-moment decision.  I think this should have been a Trac 
ticket with type RFC.

I would really like to see this reverted until we can discuss it more 
thoroughly.

Thank you very much.
kid51
I object to





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