On 03/08/2013 01:07 PM, Cliff Jansen wrote:
Not that this speaks directly to the issue of instant deletion versus
a more dignified old-folks home retirement, but I would point out that
CMake is the sole build mechanism for AMQP 1.0 support in C/C++.  You
can't avoid it going forward for at least part of your build.

Also since a lot of the test infrastructure is tied to the build
system,  there will be an awful lot of holes showing up fast in the
automake side.

Finally, the effort to allow the automake side to continue to build
(if only to a limping state) may consist of cruel and unusual
punishment for an unlucky developer who is trying to add useful new
features (async store perchance?).

Fraser makes a fail point about the deprecation not being obvious since the instructions etc. still say to use automake.

Here's a softer proposal: we fix configure to fail by default and print a deprecation message, then add an option --you-really-should-use-clearmake-but-ok-if-you-insist=yes for those who want to continue with automake. We fix the instructions to direct people to clearmake, we keep automake working for this release, but ignore it after that. We can remove it completely at the next release.

Does that seem reasonable?


Cheers,
Alan.

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