On 12/14/2011 3:13 AM, Mario Brandt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:25, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'll check in these files for potential inclusion in a 1.4.2, as folks >> decided this mostly works now. But we really can't persist this mess for >> Netware or Win32 going on to APR 2.0. Seems overtime for Guenter and I, >> or other fresh blood, to get on the task of generating appropriate build >> files automagically. > > An Idea is might to take a look at the python script from subverion > that generates that file or the configure.js(for windows) from php > source code. > In my point of view the js script is maybe nicer, cause you don't have > to install python and the javascript support is already on board. > Just my 2 cents
We don't mind if python is required to update an svn checkout into a buildable package. Once build files are generated, python is no longer required. It should work on unix or windows or netware, the idea being that one checkout/buildconf on unix would be enough to create the whole package logic.
