Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] The sorry state of imake

[Matthew R. Trower]

‎I don't think imake is so bad, but it does have its limitations. If the consensus is that we should move to autotools (the only reasonable alternative that I'm aware of)‎, I would be willing to take a stab at the conversion. -mrt From: José Carlos Carrión Plaza Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 02:19 To: cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] The sorry state of imake Hi all. IMHO GNU autotools is the right way. Xorg moved from old "imake-make World" to GNU autotools and modular packing. Motif moved in a similar way. I think the third traditional actor of the old robust desktop, CDE, must follow the same way. If I may help you in any way, please let me know. Regards. -- José Carlos Carrión Plaza El 20/06/18 a las 05:33, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel escribió: Hi all, Matthew T. and I have had a conversation about imake and whether or not it would be a good idea to merge with master or not. After doing a bit of discussion, I sent a message to alan coopersmith to see if anyone at the imake team would be willing to look at our code and help us merge, to which he revealed to me that there is no imake team, and there hasn't been one since 2014, and it is very unlikely that anyone else will pick up the project (he even went as far as to consider appointing me as the maintainer of imake). So if it wasn't official already, it is now, we are maintaining both imake and CDE. I briefly considered moving to meson, however Matthew informed me that this would severely limit compatibility with legacy operating systems, and it looks like Cmake has that same problem. So the way I see it, we have two options going forward, we either move towards the gnu autotools, or we merge with master and continue from where they left off on our own. I was considering posting some patches that would sync us with upstream a bit, but I don't know how much they would be worth with this news (one of them enabling cross compiling). How should we continue from here? Thoughts? Thank you for your time, -Chase ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel

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