On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Guido Scholz wrote:
>> It's been discussed. It's not trivial to do.
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>
> Yes sure, but looking at hydrogens Sconstruct and qt4.py I would not
> assess these as trivial. Together they occupy 545 + 517 = 1062 lines
I said it's __NOT__ trivial.... so we agree.
> of the "autotools" documentation could be less costly. To be honest,
> every time this topic comes up here, it triggers a strong personal need
> to start "autotools" support for hydrogen, but due to time constrains
H2 left autotools for good reasons. It would be a shame to go back.
>> I recently tried to make a custom-script / qmake system and didn't like
>> it.
>
> You can use qmake only for "build" targets; forget the rest. About my
> very personal view concerning customization, see below.
Yes, that's what killed it. Coming up with a good configuration system
would be re-inventing the wheel.
>> 'waf' looks promising, but nobody has tried it, yet. CMake also looks
>> promising, but I think most of the other devs here would prefer waf
>> because it's python.
>
> Sometimes developers are arguing in strange ways. They for example
> select tools "because its based on Python, and I like it (and others do
> too)" (note: I just avoided the word "hype" here) instead of arguing
> "because it leads to good results". Once the decision is taken,
> they start re-inventing things the autotools have solved for many
> years now. At the end they get something even not doing simple things
[snip]
Well, it looks like waf and CMake are two excellent systems, and so a
preference for Python is the deal-breaker.
I'm not going to start an autotools debate. Nor emacs vs. vi. I'll just
say, I've been there. It has a lot of nice features. In the end, _I_
don't like having to set up and maintain it.
Thanks,
Gabriel
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