Am Sonntag, den 12.08.2007, 10:18 +0200 schrieb Egon Willighagen: > We have all seen OSRA, the GPL-ed library to convert images to > connectivity tables. My GSoC student wrote up an extensive blog about > his experiences with it (all comments to any of his blogs are much > appreciated): > > http://neksa.blogspot.com/2007/08/optical-structure-recognition-in-strigi.html > > One thing he noted in particular is that OSRA does not use a common > build system, like CMAKE or the autotools. I do not have overly much > experience with either of these, that is, in setting those tools up > >from scratch... Neither does the author (Igor), and I think he will > appreciate very much input from us, and patches to make his build > system use common tools.
Andreas Tille currently writes an autotools-based build environment for volpack. The situation is very similar to the one we have here, I guess. I don't know, how long it took him to write the basic system (he is not an expert in autotools, he said :)). We tried, checked and improved the result in nearly a day. You could ask him about his experiences. I wrote the autotools-based build system for several projects and I'm still happy with them. I think, that autotools are more flexible in the way, they can be used for a project and the things, that need to be done during compilation, building and/or installation. IMHO with cmake you further need to write many macros/modules at your own or copy them from 3rd parties (but not from upstream). > But if you have interest in putting in some effort in using CMAKE or > the autotools, please continue talking on this list, or directly with > Igor (cc-ed). BTW: Where is the problem with the way they use? Why would you need some more complex/comfortable/modern build environment? Regards, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
