Hey all, this topic has been brought up already a couple of times, for example on [1].
What do you think about dropping Waf support in Geany and in the Geany-Plugins project? While I was defending Waf in Geany, I somewhat changed my mind. Not because I don't like it anymore, but I increasingly see the efforts in maintaining two (to be exactly three for Geany) build systems is too much. Since the make/MSYS build system support seems to get better and better due to Nick's and Dimitar's work on it, I thought about dropping the Waf support. It seems nobody knows it well enough and probably except for a few users nobody is using it. (And obviously I don't do so much anymore and also lost a bit interest in maintaining forever.) The other thing is that Waf causes often problems for distro packages, especially for the Debian folks [2]. So, I'd go the easy way in this case and just remove Waf. Then we only need to maintain the autotools based build system for non-Windows systems and the make based for Windows. For Geany-Plugins, we would need to get something working on Windows but maybe we could re-use Geany's make based system for Windows here. What do you guys think? [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3460449&group_id=153444&atid=787794 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645190 Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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