Martin Davis <mtncl...@gmail.com> writes: > Autotools is still supported for versions <= 3.9.x. > > Not being an autotools expert, I was concerned about breaking something. > And since this is an optional tool, it wasn't clear that it would be needed > in packages. However, I can see that might be desirable. So maybe > autotools build is needed.
From the packaging point of view, I'd say that either it shouldn't exist or it should be packagable. Essentially all people use things via packaging systems, despite almost all people who develop a particular thing not using packaging for it. For <=3.9, I feel like if it is built with cmake it needs to be built --- and distributed with make dist -- with autotools. OTOH if nobody needs it, then it can just not come to the branch, and people who want to play with it can build from devel sources. I would expect that it isn't hard to add it, but I haven't dug in. It looks like a bunch of cpp files to build and link together, and that's pretty normal and compact in a declarative Makefile.am.
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