Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Richter
On 14 June 2011 15:57, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org wrote: If you have a way other than autoconf to generate a universal build script that runs on any unix machine without special software installed, then that will be

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Richter
*A Modest Proposal* * * The problems with the auto* tools are myriad and well-documented in the grey hairs and bald pates of many a poor soul who's had to put them to use. Other environments suggested -- CMake, QMake, Jam, et al -- suffer from assorted platform problems including (but not limited

Re: [fossil-users] fossil-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 23

2011-06-16 Thread Glen Peterson
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Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-16 Thread Thomas Schnurrenberger
On 16.06.2011 14:32, Richard Hipp wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Steve Havelkasmh...@gmail.com wrote: Is it necessary that it's autoconf? Or would you take a CMake-based build script? Though I think autoconf is also necessary (for use by people who do not have cmake installed) I

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-16 Thread Altu Faltu
Will the move to autoconf remove ability to build fossil for Windows through MinGW and will make us install MSVC? ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Hipp
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Altu Faltu altufa...@mail.com wrote: Will the move to autoconf remove ability to build fossil for Windows through MinGW and will make us install MSVC? No. Those capabilities are retained. There will be separate makefiles for windows. autoconf is used on

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-16 Thread Altu Faltu
Oh. Good to know. But then are there chances of makefile and autoconf not staying in sync... I request MinGW too be part of requirement. - Original Message - From: Richard Hipp Sent: 06/17/11 08:07 AM To: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to