On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 12-Aug-06, 09:09 (CDT), Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 1155391794 past the epoch, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > > Btw, why always the autotools while there's this nice > > > cmake? > > > > I've never used cmake myself, so I can't speak for how nice > > it is, but autotools (for all its problems) is very > > widespread. > > So is syphilis. That doesn't make it desirable.
Syphilis is a disease. Software usually isn't. In the case of autotools, the fact is that usually it's configure.ac or Makefile.am being horribly broken, rather than the autotools. If used properly, autotools usually do their job; and pretty well, too. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
