> "Gavin" == Gavin Smith writes:
Gavin> I remember somebody was
Gavin> complaining about this page:
Gavin>
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Program-and-Library-Variables.html
Gavin> and asking what "maude" meant - it turned out it was the name of the
Gavin> dog or somet
On 1/21/21 8:01 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I know that
at least one person has tried to write a set of GNU Make library files
intended to replace it altogether, but I've never seen anyone *finish*
that project. I'd very much like to see someone give that another go.
GNU Emacs never used Automake
My two cents:
the competing build systems, cmake, meson, have in their "features" (and
major motivation for their original development) of supporting Xcode and
Microsoft Visual Studio. Supporting for these seem to become necessary for
GNU Autotools to compete, even if these two may be outside of
Zack,
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:12 AM Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 5:15 PM Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Now we've all had a while to recover from the long-awaited Autoconf
> > 2.70 release, I'd like to start a conversation about where the
> > Autotools in general might be going in
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:01:34AM -0500, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Having said that, switching to *anything else* would be a gigantic
> task -- multiple full-time person-years of effort just for the core --
> and would mean either porting or losing all of the third-party macro
> libraries. I don't t
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 5:15 PM Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Now we've all had a while to recover from the long-awaited Autoconf
> 2.70 release, I'd like to start a conversation about where the
> Autotools in general might be going in the future.
> Now we've all had a while to recover from the long-awa
On 21/1/21 9:15 am, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Now we've all had a while to recover from the long-awaited Autoconf
2.70 release, I'd like to start a conversation about where the
Autotools in general might be going in the future. Clearly any future
development depends on finding people who will do the
