On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:10:46PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > This recent screw-up on my part in even the most minimal maintenance of the > deprecated autotools build system, the zero testing we all gave that system > afterwards, and the lack of a volunteer who wants to maintain or even test > that system indicates to me that it is near the time when we should get rid > of the autotools build system completely. > > So the question I think we should decide now is when should we pull the plug > on autotools? > > My own feeling is we have morally committed to including the autotools-based > build system through at least our next stable release (5.8.0), but it's been > deprecated for a while now so any time after the release of 5.8.0 is fair > game so long as we give some advance notice. Thefore, I think immediately > after 5.8.0 would be appropriate so that our first release in the 5.9.x > series and all development and stable releases after that would exclude the > autotools-related files. > > I am bringing up this issue now for discussion because if we do decide to > eliminate the autotools-related files by 5.9.0, then we should give advance > notice of that change in the (5.8.0-RC1 and) 5.8.0 release notes so that > those users who are still using autotools will have a chance to try out the > cmake-based build system in 5.8.0 to make sure it satisfies all their needs.
Alan, I second your plan. Out autotools support is already getting out of date and generating extra error reports and hence difficulties for our users. I think 5.9.x would be a good time to drop it. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
