On 03/01/2016 05:47 PM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> 01.03.2016 15:21, Egor Pugin wrote:
>> Maintaining different build systems (makefiles + VS projects for
>> several versions) is not worth it.
>     Currently makefiles don't need maintaining: all changes in sources are 
> accepted
> automatically.

Except adding new directories - but that is not too frequent op ;)

> And it saving people from getting and installing of third-party cmake.
>     If we manage to get rid of autotools usage, things will get even more 
> simple.
>

Yes, avoiding use of autotools might be useful. The method used by it 
for any checks called 'try to compile a program' fails in some cases 
(for example on MacOS some functions compile and link, but always return 
"not implemented" errno) and causes a lot of troubles for cross-platform 
builds.


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