On 12/09/2017 09:14 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > What are the alternatives? Are there any good ones?
This is one of those areas where it is easy to (legitimately) criticize, but hard to find a correct answer. I'm a (largely inactive) developer on Pidgin. Over the years, we've seen a number of proposals to switch away from autotools. Unfortunately, none of those build systems seem to have gotten much traction. The latest build system proposed there, that does seem to be getting some traction, is Meson. GNOME is getting behind Meson, for example. I don't know much about Meson, so don't consider this a recommendation to switch to it. I suspect it is a two-phase build system. Also, the website says, "supported languages include C, C++, D, Fortran, Java, Rust", which notably does not include Python or Go. So even if it is gaining traction, it may not be an appropriate fit for this project, at least right now. waf is working for NTPsec. While I wish NTPsec wasn't using something obscure, because it is hard to find help on obscure things, it's not necessarily worth switching. The in-tarball-blob part of waf is more problematic for me as a Debian packager, but it has a clear and Debian-standard solution, which I have successfully used. -- Richard _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
