Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> writes: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Jon Trulson wrote: > >> On 06/20/2018 06:01 PM, Chase wrote: >> >> The next release will be 2.3, because things. >> >> Autotools will take a while, before it's functional. There are many steps to >> building CDE, it will not be a trivial task to replicate in autotools. > > There are some other build systems that could be considered, for example > ksh93 can now be built with meson/ninja, has those be considered?
Meson/ninja have been discussed privately, but not on this list to my knowledge. Moving to these would drop out a lot of potential platform support. I don't know what opinion the Powers that Be might hold, but for my part, I think we have a rich body of code here, lean enough to run snappy on a 1995 Pentium computer in only a few megabytes of RSS, with quite portable, standards compliant code and tooling. I think it would be a real shame to introduce dependency on Python 3 and other tools that were written with modern mainstream platforms in mind, especially for the sake of a build system... GNU autotools, provided we don't necessarily depend on the latest and greatest release, not only offers great advantage to us but also retains great compatibility with various platforms and legacy environments. It seems the natural choice. -mrt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
