Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach git version --build-options about zlib versions.

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:21:33 -0700

Randall Becker <[email-masked]> writes:

> What I actually proposed was splitting --build-options with
> runtime (some representative argument). This would allow the
> headers used at build time (--build-options) to be reported *and*
> the runtime (probably) DLL versions (but would also report static
> linked library versions) to be reported. Both are useful from a
> support standpoint.

That certainly is a reasonable future plan.

> However, the --build-options argument was
> intended to report an invariant set of values used during the
> build, so I would rather not conflate the two distinctly different
> semantic values.

This reasoning makes sense to me, too.

Please wrap overly long lines to reasonable width, by the way.