> > Gnome currently uses the GNU Autotools for building all projects. > > Autotools is hard to work with and complicated and there are lots of > > techically superior build systems out there. Therefore, I suggest that > > GNOME should gradually replace Autotools with scons (www.scons.org). > > I'd suggest that this would not be a very interesting topic of discussion on > this list *unless* you converted one of the existing GNOME modules to scons
Right. That's the easy part. Any GNOME modules wanna sign up for a FREE conversion to scons? Limited supply, order now! > and demonstrated its benefits to developers, distributors and users of GNOME > (who care about building it from revision control or tarballs). That'll be a That is the hard part. You can't demonstrate the benefit without getting them to try it and you can't get them to try it without demonstrating the benefit. Moment 22. > great starting point for a discussion, while arguing theoretical stuff won't > really get us anywhere. :-) Agreed. I'll come back with a demo. Atleast it is good to know that the door isn't "slammed shut" for migrating to another build system. -- mvh Björn _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
