Hi all.
IMHO GNU autotools is the right way. Xorg moved from old "imake-make
World" to GNU autotools and modular packing. Motif moved in a similar
way. I think the third traditional actor of the old robust desktop, CDE,
must follow the same way.
If I may help you in any way, please let me know.
Regards.
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José Carlos Carrión Plaza
El 20/06/18 a las 05:33, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel escribió:
Hi all,
Matthew T. and I have had a conversation about imake and whether or
not it would be a good idea to merge with master or not. After doing a
bit of discussion, I sent a message to alan coopersmith to see if
anyone at the imake team would be willing to look at our code and help
us merge, to which he revealed to me that there is no imake team, and
there hasn't been one since 2014, and it is very unlikely that anyone
else will pick up the project (he even went as far as to consider
appointing me as the maintainer of imake). So if it wasn't official
already, it is now, we are maintaining both imake and CDE. I briefly
considered moving to meson, however Matthew informed me that this
would severely limit compatibility with legacy operating systems, and
it looks like Cmake has that same problem. So the way I see it, we
have two options going forward, we either move towards the gnu
autotools, or we merge with master and continue from where they left
off on our own. I was considering posting some patches that would sync
us with upstream a bit, but I don't know how much they would be worth
with this news (one of them enabling cross compiling).
How should we continue from here? Thoughts?
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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