Re: Hello?

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Neundorf, Alexander wrote:
> I think that's the wrong direction.
> It needs a simple build system. Not simple as in "it does everything automatically", but simple as in "you don't need special tools , and everybody understands the used tools".
> Which leaves basically handwritten Makefiles, which ideally would be well commented.

That would be nice, but one of PicoGUI's strengths has always
been very flexible compile-time configuration. That would turn
into a big mess with makefiles only.

Either way, we should probably ditch autoconf ;)

> 
> The license:
> what about OS's which don't have dynamic linking, but only static linking ?
> The plain GPL/LGPL has a problem.

pgserver has been LGPL for a while now. The only GPL'ed components are
a few of the applications.

--Micah

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