CMake!
Denis Leroy
denis at poolshark.org
Sat Oct 11 00:01:33 UTC 2008
Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Callum Lerwick <seg <at> haxxed.com> writes:
>>> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:56 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>>>> If you want upstream to stop using libtool altogether, find a
>>>> suitable replacement and convince the Automake developers to use it
>>>> instead.
>>> Why the h8? He was speaking in the context of "the state of the art" and
>>> in my oh-so-humble opinion CMake is it. The whole of the Autotools stack
>>> is very much... not.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> The suggestion to convince the automake developers to use something
>> other than libtool is pointless, because automake should also go away,
>> it's at least as obsolete, buggy, unable to maintain backwards
>> compatibility, annoying, a massive time waster at build time and a
>> major PITA for developers to code with as libtool is. The whole
>> autotools stack sucks. It always did, we just didn't have anything
>> better. We now do, so why are people still using autotools?
>>
>> Some of the major design failures of the autotools:
>
> [snip]
>
> And we're done. This thread has become a place for build system zealots
> rant without any regard to finding a pragmatic solution to the problem
> at hand and without consideration for those who might wish to do so.
> Enjoy.
That's it, I'm hereby invoking Wayne Lord of the Malted Beverages to
have y'all banned to heck :-)
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