On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:22 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
* Craig Rasmussen wrote on Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:45:55PM CET:
The CCA people seemed to be worried that there was a long dead time
between releases and were wondering if they should give up on
autoconf
and move to something else (cmake). I love (to hate) autoconf and
was
hoping that it wasn't destined for the bit bucket. But since you all
aren't worried, I won't be either.
Are the improvements/bugfixes you/the CCA people need already in CVS
Autoconf? In other words, is it a new release you are in need for, or
missing features or bugs?
For Open MPI, I can think of a couple of things that I know have been
mentioned in the past on the AC list, but I don't know if they are in
CVS or not:
- Make AC_HELP_STRING count characters correctly when quadrigraphs ;).
- Include one of the AC_PROG_OBJC (and friends) macro sets - I
thought at
one time, there was even such a thing in AC's CVS, although now I
can't
find it.
There are annoyances with AC, but generally it seems to work, so I
never really cared much about their glacier speed release process...
Brian
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Brian Barrett
Open MPI developer
http://www.open-mpi.org/
