On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:08:28AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >I personally never had big problems with auto tools on > Windows. > > I guess you have a reasonably quick machine. Looking the results > coming line by line from ./configure has been killing me, especially > when I know many of them are *not* needed.
Not really, I have a 5 years old 900 MHz laptop ;-) I know that that on *nix configure is much more speedy, but I can live with that. > >Even not fully understanding them, I was always able to tweak them > >such that to obtain what I needed. So, I feel at home with the > >autoconf thing and am somewhat scared to change. > > But changing autoconf now and then is not fun either. True, but simplicity and powerfulness rarely come together... > >Nevertheless I will gladly help to tune any new environment which > >may help simplifying maintainance. > > It should be easy, if only you can read Python. No problem here. > >In any case, I acknowledge your enthusiam and initiative. The > >configure.py thing, for example, is a big step forward at least > >on Windows (not even taking into account the auto-view work). > > I am glad to hear that. (Few people can rebuke praises, I am not one > of them. :-) Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's ;-) -- Enrico
