Go for it. Andrew
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
