On Monday 06 September 2004 01:38, Voguemaster wrote: > ... just as there is no doubt in my mind that our friends > from Trolltech provided us with qmake not only to make our > lives easier but to make us use their tools :)
Yes, but to their credit it is free software nevertheless. > The problem with autotools is that they are hard to use if you're > inexperienced with them and have to do something *special*. > In order to be able to extend autotools and do special feats you > need a better understanding than... Agreed. BTW, replace in the previous paragraph the word autotools with the word 'Linuces' (or 'Unices' for that sake) and it will still remain a truism (IMO). > At least there's a free book (although the problem is - you have to > READ it hehe) The irony is that this book was published one month after I completed preparing my brand new course about autotools (circa Jan 2000 IIRC). Of course I downloaded it immediately (as well as ordering a paperback copy) so that I could do some reality checking. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 "Debugging is at least twice as hard as writing the program in the first place. So if your code is as clever as you can possibly make it, then by definition you're not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
