Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:38:11AM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: > Well, automake works fine for me in general on MinGW whenever I've used > it there, but never tried it with Visual Studio or Cygwin. Of course > there's always the incompatible-versions problem with the autotools. > And maintaining a t

Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-04 Thread Reed Hedges
Peter Amstutz wrote: > Whenever I try to set up a VOS build environment on Windows, I get a > sharp, throbbing headache and a strong urge to throw my chair out the > window. It's difficult to understate just how big of a maintainance > hassle the current build system is on Windows (whether Cygw

Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-02 Thread HEBLACK, J
Re: [vos-d] bakefiles At the list from dmoz: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Graphic_Subsystems/Toolkits/ There is no notice about wxWidgets though there is stuffs about GLO GUI Library (Game GUI Engine), Droplets, General Interface, LGI (Lightweight GUI Library), and

Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-01 Thread Peter Amstutz
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:28:41AM -0400, Reed Hedges wrote: > > Is it really bad enough to throw out our investment in the autotools > configuration? bakefile is probably the most obscure of all the build Whenever I try to set up a VOS build environment on Windows, I get a sharp, throbbing head

Re: [vos-d] bakefiles

2007-04-01 Thread Reed Hedges
Is it really bad enough to throw out our investment in the autotools configuration? bakefile is probably the most obscure of all the build tools you list. If you do switch to bakefile, let's keep some Makefiles in the bzr tree. And keep bakefile inside the bzr tree so that you don't have to have

[vos-d] bakefiles

2007-03-31 Thread Peter Amstutz
I'm considering switching the VOS s5 build system from automake to Bakefile (http://bakefile.org). The reason is that the maintainance overhead imposed by automake has started to get annoying, and that automake provides no support for building outside the conventional unix toolchain (for examp