[Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
It is probably not newws to anyone on this list that autotools has turned into more trouble than it is really worth. I am pretty expert with it based on many years of experience, but I reached my personal limit recently while attempting to fix bug #8635. There are only two people on the Wesnoth

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread jeremy rosen
great idea, though I would advise waiting for the 1.5 branch before doing any thing (probably stating the obvious here) I am all for changing the build system, but I have no experience with alternatives = no usefull input On Jan 24, 2008 12:17 AM, Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Odp: Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Piotr Cychowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a totaly unrepresentative voice of Windows-using minority, after reading above, I'd go for WAF. I do appreciate that scons might be more stable, but I would not want to bring python into the process. Um, WAF is also implemented in Python.

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Odp: Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread Nils Kneuper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric S. Raymond schrieb: Piotr Cychowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wrestling with windows ports of libraries we use is painful enough without adding another layer of things that might go

Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Choosing a new build system

2008-01-23 Thread Jens Seidel
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 06:17:49PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: It is probably not newws to anyone on this list that autotools has turned into more trouble than it is really worth. I am pretty expert with it based on many years of experience, but I reached my personal limit recently while