Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Jon Trulson
On 11/15/19 6:15 PM, Chase wrote: > Alright... I will see what I can do with the latest branch, but I still feel > that it would be best to move from version to version a bit more slowly, > after all, there are over 22 years of changes in ksh by now... > I understand your hesitation, but of tha

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Jon Trulson
On 11/15/19 7:06 PM, Matthew R. Trower wrote: > On the subject of Meson... > > Back when we were determining which build system to transition to from imake, > autotools was selected for its wide wide range of platform compatibility. > Meson was considered at that time. The thing about Meson is

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Matthew R. Trower
On the subject of Meson... Back when we were determining which build system to transition to from imake, autotools was selected for its wide wide range of platform compatibility. Meson was considered at that time. The thing about Meson is that it depends on python3.5 and ninja. Ninja in part

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
Alright... I will see what I can do with the latest branch, but I still feel that it would be best to move from version to version a bit more slowly, after all, there are over 22 years of changes in ksh by now... Thank you for your time, -Chase ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, Novem

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Jon Trulson
On 11/15/19 5:21 PM, Chase wrote: > I can see why those commented out makefiles could cause concern. I did this > because in the build order from the imake file (not sure if this is actually > important, in fact I am pretty sure it is not, as mentioned later), it was > built after programs that

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
I can see why those commented out makefiles could cause concern. I did this because in the build order from the imake file (not sure if this is actually important, in fact I am pretty sure it is not, as mentioned later), it was built after programs that we are still trying to make build. So what

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS CONVERSION] move BuildNotes to doc

2019-11-15 Thread Jon Trulson
On 11/14/19 8:27 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: > I am assuming that admin is going to get nuked once Imake is gone, so > lets move the BuildNotes to somewhere where they make more sense > No - admin/ will stay, and is the best place for these since doc/ is for building the documentation,

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] [AUTOTOOLS-CONVERSION] make ksh build, update to ksh93v-beta

2019-11-15 Thread Jon Trulson
On 11/14/19 7:26 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: > First off, massive apology for the commit size, I did not realize it was > going to be that big, and there really wasn't a good way to break it > down that I saw. > 38MB, yeah... that's pretty much impossible to review properly. I probabl