First of all, congratulations for the ten years of LittleCMS and I see very interesting and exciting features for the 2.0 version !
On Saturday 01 November 2008, Greg Troxel wrote: > I don't know what you are thinking about build system. The way lcms > 1.17 builds seems good to me -- autoconf is very portable, even if > people think it's a bit crufty -- with windows on the side. Well that would be a big problem, wouldn't it ? Well of course, there is still the possibility to maintain different "project" files like it is done currently, but in my opinion that it is time best spend on more interesting things like code ;) > More > importantly, packaging systems support it, and I think ease of use by > packaging systems is an important consideration, since most people run > most software via packaging systems of some kind. There have been a > number of build systems du jour, such as scons and cmake, and over the > years I've come to believe that most of these are in practice less > desirable because they don't have builtin support in all packaging > systems. (Of course this is a difficult situation for improving build > systems in general.) That's hardly an argument against, otherwise, as you said, it would be impossible to make progress in any area. And I also think it's becoming less and less a problem, with some big open source project switching to cmake, I guess by now most packaging systems have support for it (at least on linux, and I bet BSDs are going to follow, after all NetBSD also have KDE, Scribus, inkscape which are big users of lcms which have (or are) switch(ing) to cmake ;) ). -- Cyrille Berger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
