On Friday 29 of April 2011 11:18:26 Charles Forsyth wrote:
> > complaining is because you _need_ linux... to furnish all the things
> > you can't do with plan 9 - either personally, or within your
> > organization.
>
> it's true, but at least i haven't got to run either Windows or MacOS.
> the underlying problem is that the things we might simply import (mainly
> browser) can't simply be imported. it's not just us: you might have
> noticed that Google's Picasaweb runs under Linux by including a copy of
> Wine as part of its iceberg. also google in any alternative-os list you
> like for a discussion of the hopelessness of ./configure
qmake (Qt's makefile generator) is mostly reasonable IMHO. consists of one
program (the qmake) which reads a rather simple project description
(<<myapp>>.pro) plus a bunch of platform description files
(/usr/lib{,64}/qt/mkspec/<<platform>>/qmake.conf + whatever it includes) and
outputs reasonable makefiles.
at any rate, the supposed replacements for autoconf/automake aren't shining
examples of engineering either -- usually big & complex. i guess it's more
about mindset (``let's check every itty-gritty detail and let's abstract away
differences between platforms'') than the problem space, thou.
--
dexen deVries
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``In other news, STFU and hack.''
mahmud, in response to Erann Gat's ``How I lost my faith in Lisp''
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308816
