Quoting Richard Eckart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel:
:I'm a direct fellow and even I think you are pretty rough with people.
Don't worry, I could not care less. I do not care about words. Only
actions, and the efforts deployed to make gtk-gnutella cross-compile
are worth our attention.
Sterile debates about my choosing metaconfig over autoconf to solve
a problem at hand are not interesting. I can make metaconfig handle
cross-compilation, and I will. The other things are a matter of taste,
and unfortunately, I know it's impossible to have everyone like what I
happen to like, or view things from the same angle.
What matters is that I will take the pain to make it work, and that
should be sufficient for everyone. Action, not words.
:Btw.: I'm not too happy with metaconfig either, but that what it is now. Since
:I don't have time to contribute anything at the moment and in the forseeable
:future, my vote what tools to use is void anyway.
What do you dislike about it? It's just a configuration system. Don't
confuse it with jmake, the makefile builder. They're two separate things
and don't necessarily need to be used together, although jmake knows about
all the metaconfig macros, just like automake knows about autoconf.
I'm not too fond of jmake myself, even though I wrote it in the first place,
but I just love metaconfig. And jmake currently gets the job done, and
does not require one to have GNU make to run.
:Actually I wonder... if you are so fond of autostuff and are able to make it
:work... can't you simply create autostuff stuff and have that put into cvs
:in parallel to the metaconfig stuff? That would make it possible for everybody
:to use the building system of his/her choice.
That would be a bad idea. The makefiles to use are just too alien to co-exist.
And the configuration symbols are different. Don't cast the stone on
metaconfig here, it was automake's choice to be different, as it was written
after metaconfig.
Raphael
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