I think autotools is a good choice, imake is....cranky.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 4:52 AM Matthew R. Trower <d...@blackshard.net>
wrote:
> 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
>
>
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