On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:17:34PM +0000, David Mackay wrote: > On the topic of the Autotools: I do hope we will steer as far clear > from autotools as possible. CDE's build system is somewhat antiquated, > and a rehaul would be a prudent idea, but autotools is not > appropriate. In this day and age, with software projects abandoning > autotools en-masse owing to its complicated nature and a plethora of > technical faults, this would be a regression.
+1 for this part. While I personally don't really care much about the actual license CDE and its bits & bobs are under - I find GPLv3 to be restrictive enough to be preferrably avoided, but I don't have code in CDE so it's not up to me to complain - the more permissive a license, the better, as far as I'm concerned. But honestly, coming from someone who has spent a good part of the last decade doing porting to IRIX, HP-UX, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, QNX, and god knows what other shenanigans: try to avoid autotools. It's a huge frickin mess that is virtually impossible to trace/debug/fix if it goes nuts (and it goes nuts way too often). It's Linux/BSD centered, and while that in itself is not a problem, it *is* a problem if you want your software to build on something that isn't quite Linux-on-intel.
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