Hi, Am 11.12.2008 um 22:03 schrieb Charlie Poole:
> Follow up question on application installs: > > The whole autotools thing seems like a bit of overkill for > a pure .NET application. While many Mono-related managed tools [1] do use autoconf, ... > Is it reasonable to just use a > simple install target that copies everything under $(prefix)? > > Any good examples to look at? Git comes to mind - they use a Makefile install target as you describe, but there's nothing .NET/Mono related. Many Unix tools use autotools, which brings some tools for free - e.g., documentation of switches, logging to config.log, overriding prefix directories (--bindir=... etc.) and installing to a clean root dir for packaging (`make install DESTDIR=...`). It's unintuitive to use on Windows though for most people. But so is a Makefile. Andreas [1] MonoDevelop, Mono.ZeroConf, gtk-sharp, etc. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
