I should hope not. Autotools is indeed the worst possible solution, except for all the others. (With apologies to Churchill.) But it exists and it is a known quantity.
It solves problems like generation of tar balls, checking that the tar balls actually work, running test suites, checking translation completeness, handles cross- compilation (to a point), multiple architectures, parallel builds, etc. Hard stuff. (It also handles hardware last observed in the late 70s, but you aren't harmed by that.) I really do not see a need to sink time into replacing all that. Especially not if the simplification consists of using the ostrich approach -- "*I* don't have that problem so it is not important." Re your specific concerns: linux, osx, win32 all have the unix tools; there ought to be a macro provided to find glib-compile-resources; with counceling you will get over the ugliness. Morten On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Victor Aurélio Santos <victoraur.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is there a plan to write a new build system or use another existing > build system for Gtk instead of Autotools ? > > I ask this because autotools is something "not good enough" for me. > It's syntax is ugly and bad to remember, the platform that will run > autotools requires a UNIX tool-set (sh, make, etc...), there's no > support to glib's features like resources the developer have manually > find the glib-compile-resources executable and write rules to build > the resources, and so on. > > I also think that Gtk should have something "Gtk's build system", Like > Qt's qmake. > > If not, do anyone know if GNOME plan this ? > Note that jhbuild is not a build system, it's more a "build bot". > > Thanks, I'll be happy to hear your plans and pros/cons of move to > another build system. > -- > Victor Aurélio Santos > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
