From kde-core-devel Mon Jun 13 12:11:06 2005 From: Stefan Teleman Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:11:06 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Build system for KDE4 Message-Id: <200506130811.06827.steleman () nyc ! rr ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=111866525405973 On Monday 13 June 2005 08:07, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On 6/13/05, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > > > i'm not even aimimg for "it works so well, it's like butter". > > > imho, auto's popularity is not rooted in its absolute value, > > > but in its relative value (it sucks less than others). > > > > Or more likely, that it's based on 'make' and sh, which every > > unix platform has installed by debault. yes. which leaves one with very few choices. Imakefile and xmkmf anyone ? :-) > Writing tests in scons/etc. is considerably easier than doing it in > M4 and shell. i'm not being M4's apologist (i hate it :-). but realistically speaking, how many people have *actually built* KDE with scons ? --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman 'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition' steleman@nyc.rr.com -Monty Python