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While I'm in the mood...
Quoting Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>:
> Automake is one of the biggest troublemaker in the opensource world.
> [...]
> But at all it is completely misdesign. It starts at the point, that
> configure is a really big-fat and unreadable shell script which almost
> cannot repaired or fixed manually if there are some problems (I'm
> maintaining
> some distros for specialized systems like server farms - and I can tell you
> that there are enough problems). It would be a good starting point, if
> it would be a well structured shellscript-library which is split off
> in many good readable files.
>
If there is some tool that does it better, I think people will happily use
that. The tool that does it better could go ahead and show how easy it is to
use by converting programs like gcc, glibc or similar and show how to build
them on Solaris, Windows, IRIX or OS X.
We're all not sold on autotools, trust me. But we use the best tool for the
job.
> Commercial IDEs like Borlands C++ IDE are doing this much better for many
> years. In BC++ you simply have a tree nodes, like executable, source files,
> includes, ... each of them has its properties, which also can be derived
> from stylesheets for fast swichting between several build variants (i.e.
> debug vs. release build, ...)
>
I must have missed the Borland implemntation that built on 10 diferent
architectures and as many Operating Systems. Last I looked they build on
Win32/i386 only.
btw: Do you plan on replacing autotools before or after rewriting glib?
Benjamin