On Mon, October 22, 2007 11:42 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Christian Seberino as of Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:21:54PM > -0700: >> I spent a lot of time once on a project doing Autotools stuff. I think >> Automake is very useful and nice. The rest is darn hard to tame. >> >> It seems to me that Autotools is like CVS in that it is a project >> patched >> piecemeal over years and years that must be torn down and rewritten >> write >> like the Subversion crew did for CVS. > > Oh, god, no. > > The second-system effect does not result in an improvement over the > original. > > --
Agreed. But on another tack (hijack alert), svn is powers of 10 improved over cvs, but still enough flawed so that I for one don't want to go there. I've been devoting a trickle of time to scoping out git and quicksilver because of this. No real insight or commitment yet to either. Just one guy's opinion, albeit a guy who's done SCM in anger quite a while ... long enough to know I don't know everything, anyway. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
