David Roundy wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:57 PM, zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I'm to be responsible for a certain amount of darcs support going >> forwards, for example building darcs on Windows, then please allow me >> to vote in favor of us at least exploring the option of an >> alternative to autoconf. > > I'm not familiar any autoconf alternatives. Do you know of any?
I've actually tried a few autotools-based builds recently that went awry and I don't envy anyone that manages those builds on a day to day basis. I thought I had seen crazy accretions of build scripts and then autotools started to barf on me and I saw a rabbit hole that boggled my mind... So I have looked at some of the alternatives recently, even as I don't have any projects currently that need such configuration tools. Most recently I've heard some good things about Waf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waf http://waf.googlecode.com/ I'm not sure if it has everything that Darcs needs, but if someone that has even rudimentary Python knowledge is involved there shouldn't be many problems implementing what few pieces might be missing. I've been using Python a lot lately and I'm thinking that I might be able to offer some small support in that direction. The Wikipedia link has some good references to other similar tools such as Scons and CMake, but from my own (somewhat uninformed, perhaps, as I'm not much of a build engineer) reading Waf comes out as the most interesting. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
