On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes: >> On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 01:20 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > CMake is used by all of KDE 4, and several other projects have switched to > CMake following that example (or in some cases, because the KDE Window$ porters > did the port for them), and I'm not aware of anyone having switched back. > Ok the problem is that build tools are one of the things developers build strong relationships with (System administrators build it with their mail handler tools). You point out the deficiencies in someones choices of tools and the brain begins attack/flight/protect hormone chains. The same emotional centers in the brain as if you had picked up an axe and pointed it at someones family. The hormones get triggered and all logic circuits are cut off until the testosterone and serotonin get back down to lower levels. [I think its serotonin.. it may be one of the other brain chemicals that get fired off in big numbers when this occurs.] The best part of this is that your logical parts of your brain are 'tricked' into saying "This is the most logical thing to do" although 3 or 4 days later you might regret it (though reading past emails will probably trigger the same chemical reactiosn and you wont disagree but even send one or two more emails to prove your point.) So basically this conversation is a 'dead' conversation. People have their hairs on their necks up, testosterone pumping to put 3 or 4 beards in a day, and are to the flinging poo part. At this point, there is no way either side is going to say that Cmake is better at this, or Autotools is better than that.. Wait a week, and see if one can bridge the gap with some diplomatic discourse. Yes diplomatic discourse uses a lot of soft words and will spend a week talking around the point before bringing it up.. but thats because its meant to get around the human brains stupidity. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
