One of the things I want to do soon in preparation for the next development release is remove all the old autotools cruft.
It's been quite a while since I have referred to our autotools efforts to compare with what we are doing now with our CMake-based build system, but just in case we need access to that old configuration information, it is easily accessible from http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/plplot/tags/v5_8_0/ or previous tags. Thus, I see no need to keep autotools-related material in the trunk version of our svn repository. Therefore, I propose to do a massive delete from svn trunk of all our Makefile.am files, the *.in files we are not using from CMake, the cf directory, configure.ac, and all other files that are autotools-specific. I also plan to remove autotools references from our documentation, the INSTALL file, our release scripts, etc. Does any developer here have strong objections to this plan? If I don't hear any such objections, I plan to go ahead with the big svn delete this weekend, and I am looking forward to a leaner svn trunk version that is much easier to understand as a result. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
