On Wed, 26 May 1999, charlie wallace wrote:
> why not just standardize makes across as many platforms as
> possible, ie dmake . which is available on almost every platform
> mesa is.
>
> projects files are useful too, makefiles can be incredibly esoteric,
> each to their own. I dont see why the mesa makefile has to be so
> complicated it can't be minimized to a level where cross platform
> is fairly irrelevant
>
> nearly all unix tools like sed are also available to almost every OS
> i use sed,yacc,bison,lexx in various windows projects, with makefiles
> and VC project files..
For sophisticated users such as the people on this list,
we could standardize on nearly anything. The problem (and
I speak from *bitter* experience) is that 99% of the users
out there know *or care* very little about this stuff. They
just want to grab the package and go. If you ask them to
download a bunch of tools first, you won't be very popular.
The fact is that there already is a de-facto standard, the
tools that autoconf/automake use work perfectly in all cases
except when MSVC or Borland are in predominant use. Switching
which version of make we use is irrelevent.
Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
Raytheon Systems Inc. (817)619-2466 (Fax)
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hti.com
Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
_______________________________________________
Mesa-dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.mesa3d.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
