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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2005-02-18 23:32:20
Message-ID: 200502190032.20499.glaurent () telegraph-road ! org
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On Friday 18 February 2005 23:47, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 
> if the build system actually provides full scripting flexibility, then
> people will make use of it. the result is probably a mostly unmaintainable
> build system.

Come on. Don't you think we've all got better things to do than hack over a 
build system ? Did you see anybody even suggesting something along the lines 
of "wow, think of all we could do with a real scripting language" ? Everybody 
wants a simpler build system that just won't stand in their way, nothing 
more.

Such doom-oriented prophecies always prove false. The same were said about KDE 
and C++ when it started. "C++ is too complex, booo, they'll have 
unmaintanable code booooo".

-- 
      Guillaume.
      http://www.telegraph-road.org
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