On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:46:59PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I am not sure it is wise to concentrate our energy on making a contest > between configuration systems.
Everything is driven by a need. I don't think that Bo started all this stuff because he didn't know how to spend his free time ;-) I am happy with autotools but I also pay attention to not fossilize ;-) On Windows, the configure step is particularly irritating given the time it takes. You should not underestimate this. I would like to make an example. On my laptop I have both Win2k and Debian/Linux. For the first three years that I owned it, Win2k was booted only when strictly necessary (word and powerpoint, mainly) but then the gnome "evolution" brought me to the point that a terminal appears only after about 15 seconds that I tried to open it. As a result I am using Win2k+Cygwin for my work. An rxvt terminal opens instantly, I simply compile all the software I am used to on Cygwin which gives me a posix environment. All of this because a terminal takes 15 seconds to start on linux. Yes, I could use fvwm, but I would lose a desktop environment. I would like to have back gnome 1.4, but it is not possible. -- Enrico
