On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:57:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I say do what you like, but keep in mind 1) that we no longer really have a > relationship with XFree86 upstream, at least when it comes to Imakefiles > and 2) no one other than XFree86 appears to be interested in retraining > Imake as a build system. > > In other words, my ordinary caution about major overhauls in this part of > the tree is not engaged, but please don't spend time engineering a solution > for the ages, as the rest of the X community seems pretty interested in > making sure Imake doesn't live very much longer.
Yeah, this makes a lot of sense. I've wished imake went eat rotten flesh for a bunch of times now.. ;) -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
