At Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:58:06 -0700, Gerard Jungman wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:41 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Brian Gough wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for using autoconf. I think it is a good thing. > > > > Yeah, I don't really think of them as optional these days. They are far > > from perfect and often a PITA, but what they do is necessary. > > You guys are missing the point. The question is not > "autotools or nothing" but "autotools or cmake".
As Robert says, it's a question of standardisation. I have nothing against cmake, on a purely techical level it may be better but autotools is the defacto standard and that is worth more in practice.
