> Definitely not; this is the most complex conversion I've done to date. > The previous most complex one was libtiff, which also had a fair amount > of historical stuff. Most are trivial in comparison.
Good to know. > Hopefully I got the question you were asking. I didn't do this in the > patch because the intention was not to replace the Autotools. But I can > look into this if desired. Not at the moment, I was just trying to understand the relationship between the tools and the implications of having both on the maintenance. > OK. I'll look into copying the existing Windows and Libtool semantics > exactly. If there's a possibility for aligning them with the next major > release, we could revisit it then, but I'll revert to the status quo for > now. Thx. > I hope that explains things, but I'm happy to go into more detail for > any aspects which are unclear. Thanks, I'll review further while you make the filename adjustments but I think if others don't have concerns we can plan for merging it back to trunk. -- Scott