On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 00:44 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Braden McDaniel <braden <at> endoframe.com> writes: > > And we're done. This thread has become a place for build system zealots > > rant without any regard to finding a pragmatic solution to the problem > > at hand and without consideration for those who might wish to do so. Enjoy. > > Sorry for having performed long-term thinking and foresight. I am aware of how > horrible a crime that is and how we should never plan for any longer than the > next 30 minutes. So let us spend hours debating on how to perform the various > one-line changes needed to support the newest version of libtool, because > that's oh so hard, and let us forget the fact that other build systems even > exist: who would commit such a heresy as to use them? > > Disclaimer: The above paragraph MAY contain sarcasm. (In the same sense that a > bag of peanuts MAY contain peanuts.) And once again you miss the point: changing packages' build systems wholesale is *never* going to be the right thing for Fedora to do. Promoting a particular build system for participation in such a task is not "long term planning", it's noise. If you really care about getting projects to switch to CMake, swim upstream. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
