autoconf and epel-5

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>
> Switching to CMake is a one-time change and will save you from a lot of
> changes to deal with backwards-incompatible autotools later. CMake tries
> hard to maintain backwards compatibility, see:
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#section_Compatibility%20Commands
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#section_Policies
> and also the older CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY mechanism, which is still
> supported, see the policy CMP0001:
> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#policy:CMP0001
> That's very different from the autotools' behavior of breaking things willy
> nilly (yet does not preclude fixing historical warts).
>
> You have to think in the longer term.

Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but promoting cmake on fedora-devel
doesn't really accomplish anything unless the readers of this list are
also upstream maintainers of some project. CMake may be a great
system, but since fedora is downstream it has to work with what it
gets.

--
Dan