On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 22:39 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Callum Lerwick <seg <at> haxxed.com> writes: > > > > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:56 -0400, Braden McDaniel 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? Because there are no better alternatives. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
