On Fri, 10.10.08 22:39, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > If you want upstream to stop using libtool altogether, find a > > > suitable replacement and convince the Automake developers to use > > > it instead. > > > > Why the h8? He was speaking in the context of "the state of the > > art" and in my oh-so-humble opinion CMake is it. The whole of the > > Autotools stack is very much... not. > > +1 > > The suggestion to convince the automake developers to use something > other than libtool is pointless, because automake should also go > away, it's at least as obsolete, buggy, unable to maintain backwards > compatibility, annoying, a massive time waster at build time and a > major PITA for developers to code with as libtool is. The whole > autotools stack sucks. It always did, we just didn't have anything > better. We now do, so why are people still using autotools? I actually like autotools. Oh, and I think that cmake is a big trainwreck. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
