On 06/09/2009 03:11 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > On 06/09/2009 04:34 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> David Cantrell (dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> This was a backburner project I had for a while, but I've updated it to >>> work with the latest source tree and feel now (early in F-12), it's a >>> good time to look at something like this. >>> >>> The patch is large, but I've run it through splitdiff so you can look at >>> each file change: >>> >>> http://dcantrel.fedoraproject.org/anaconda/autognu/ >> >> As a contrary curmudgeon who dislikes the autotools... what does this >> gain us? >> > > I have to give a +1 to this comment. Whenever possible I avoid > autotools, plain > Makefiles are *so* much easier to deal with. Its not like people are going > to build anaconda on win32 or something like that ? I have to agree with this -- I don't think it buys us anything that great; when APIs change, we get build errors already, and so far that's the biggest selling point. I don't think it's worth the hassle of maintaining the autotools junk, and we lose things like the ability to just do "make updates" without making sure we've run the right other tools ahead of time. -- Peter _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
