On Wednesday 03 December 2008 01:31:20 am Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:28 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote: > > >> I would add: > > >> > > >> * do not start new projects using autotools as far as possible > > > > > > I would recommend you to stop spreading FUD. > > > > What FUD? > > > > There's an alternative which is: > > * easier to learn, > > * more portable, > > * more backwards-compatible (with its own previous versions), > > * faster, > > * generating nicer makefiles (progress percentages, color output), > > * designed in a better way (information is kept in central places instead > > of being copied into hundreds of projects), > > * used by more and more software, including big projects like KDE 4. > > > > It's called CMake. > > See, all FUD, you simply are spraying hatred against something you don't > understand or don't want to understand. > > To me, cmake is > * not easier to learn, just different Learning a new thing is always different. He's not telling you it's easier for *you* to learn something new than something *you* already know, but that it's easier for someone unfamiliar with autotools nor CMake to learn CMake than autotools. > * non-portable/inflexible. "FUD! FUD!" > * overladden with non-helpful gimmicks like progress percentages and > color output Agreed, but it's not like they get in the way. > * a crack ridden design (using a central database), reinvention of > imake, comprising it's design flaws. Reinvention of build-system-tools-in-general. Like a new version of autotools (they don't pretend to be backwards compatible). > * a kde proprietary tool. Uh, what? Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
