On 11/9/07, Lucas Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to comment about any specific build system. I have a > couple of more fundamental questions about this topic though: > > - What's the *problem* that needs to be solved that really demands us > to choose another build system?
I think daniel did a pretty good job of explaining the issues in his original email, didn't he? In reading his email I found myself agreeing with almost everything he wrote, even though in the final analysis, I think autofoo is probably still the best thing we've got. The barrier to contribution issue is the one that I think is most important. In thinking back a few years ago when I was trying to learn autotools, I had a lot of the same frustrations and may well have just given up had I been any less determined to learn. > - Are the current drawbacks of using autotools in GNOME so so so > annoying that it would be really worth the effort of migrating to > something else? The only reason I could imagine migrating to something else at the moment would be if it lowered the barrier to contribution so that we got enough new contributors to offset the amount of work it required. I'm doubtful that this would actually happen though, and we'd need to be 100% sure that the system we were moving to was an improvement. -- jonner _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
