On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > >> autofoo one has to know. As for the amount of pain involved, I can > >> only think of the time it takes. Julien mentions versioning issues > >> and broken deployment but I have little experience with that. > > > > You obviously never had to work with broken libtool versions, which is > > about every libtool version until something like 3 years ago, and even > > then, there have been some pretty broken versions after that too. > > Sorry, I use Debian ;-P > > > If going with automake means we have to put up with the maintainer > > mode crap and bootstrapping the build system after every pull, then > > thanks, but no thanks, I'm keeping the current one. > > We can make maintainer mode an opt-in and keep bootstrapping limited > to clean checkouts. >
A bit off topic: Has CMake ever been an option? I have had very positive experiences with it. -- K?re S?rs
