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Subject: Re: [poppler] RFC: Dropping autotools
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: 2017-09-21 18:59:58
Message-ID: 14235835.90qC5MrYyg () xps
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El dissabte, 16 de setembre de 2017, a les 18:49:55 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va
escriure:
> El divendres, 18 d'agost de 2017, a les 0:13:44 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va
>
> escriure:
> > Ok, this is going to be controversial (or maybe not).
> >
> > I'd like to drop autotools and just use cmake as build system.
> >
> > Reasons:
> > * I don't use autotools so whenever something new happens i regularly
> >
> > forget to try it works there (as proven last time with the nss includes)
> >
> > * cmake is more portable (i.e. doesn't uses shell scripts)
> > * cmake gets releases more often
> > * cmake code is easier to read (for me)
> > * AFAICS Not even gnome (which was the "last" big autotools user) plans
> > to
> >
> > use autotools anymore
> >
> > Only issues:
> > * We don't have gtk-doc support
> > * We don't have make dist-xz support (which i use for releases)
> >
> > But i'm sure both should be fairly easy to add, just never cared to do it
> > since the only times i use them are for releases.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> So it seems we have mostly agreed on this and are blocked on the gtk-doc
> support.
Since Carlos just commited the gtk-doc support I will be removing the
autotools based build system in a few hours.
Cheers,
Albert
>
> Cheers,
> Albert
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Albert
> >
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