On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:27:10PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > >It would be nice when I could add the files to svn. > > I am glad that lyx is following KDE to have several competing build > systems. CMake won over there and I am not sure if this will be the > case for lyx.
So after GUI madness we now have build madness. > I did a scons build system and now it is in cvs (development/scons). > If you would like to add your cmake system in, I guess you will have > to prove a little bit harder to the developers why cmake is better > than autotools, and to what extend your system can replace autotools. > And I guess most importantly, whether or not you can maintain this > system. My biased view is that almost anyone can fix the scons > system, but very few will be able to do this for cmake without > learning the jargon of cmake. And now we fight secondary battles. Oh wonders of diversity. Andre'
