On 5/1/22, Martijn van Beurden <mva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently flac has 4 build systems: autotools (configure.ac), CMake, > Makefile.lite and Visual Studio files. I think this is too much and > like some opinions on which to remove. > > I propose to remove the Visual Studio files (a mention has already > been put in the changelog and README of the 1.3.4 release that they > will be removed) because that was already planned. CMake takes over > the role of providing a build system for Visual Studio. As recent > releases of Visual Studio actually feature integration of CMake, one > could see CMake as being 'endorsed' by Microsoft. Visual Studio users > will get a better maintained and configurable build system instead of > the rigid files flac provides right now. > > I'd also like to remove the Makefile.lite build system. From a remark > in the README it seems it was at some point created to provide an > alternative or back-up for the autotools build system, but a much more > flexible alternative is now available: CMake. > > I'd like to hear your thoughts on this matter.
IMO, removal of both VS project files and Makefile.lite is OK. _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev