Quoting Andrew Barnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.devel:
:Wait a second, is that why your name sounds familiar? Wasn't metaconfig
:written by someone named Raphael Manfredi?
Yes. Actually no. Metaconfig was written by Larry Wall in 1988. I took
over the maintenance of it in 1991 (much like I did for gtk-gnutella),
enhanced it, released dist-3.0 in 1993, and maintained it until 1997. At
which time I never touched it again.
Until now.
:I tried to use metaconfig back in the late 80's to port some BSD code to AT&T,
:gave up, and did it all by hand. I assume it's gotten better since then?
Yes, it's gotten much better. But it highly depends on the quality of
the source code being ported. It's a tool to aid.
:
:Are we using the perl version? Otherwise, where do we get it? Are packages
:available for RPM-based distros?
What do you mean the "perl version"? Current metaconfig is available
from here:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/RAM/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:Which means the gtk-g team will essentially be taking over maintenance of
:metaconfig, I guess? (Of course if my memory is on track and it's your
:package, that shouldn't be too surprising.)
Yes, I'm revitalizing the project.
:It has to be usable non-interactively, otherwise you can't do the config
:inside rpmbuild. It would be cool if the user had a choice, of
:course--specify it all on the command-line and force metaconfig to try to
:guess the rest, or let it ask the user to confirm everything. (I haven't
:rebuilt perl in a long time, but doesn't it have basically these two
:options?)
Don't worry.
:Also, keep in mind that we need to be able to pass in (to either metaconfig or
:the makefile or configure script or whatever it generates) things like where
:the datafiles go, where everything gets installed, etc.; otherwise building
:RPMs will be a major pain.
No problem. I have similar concerns for building my .deb file. But yes,
once can set everything from the command line.
Raphael
P.S: I'm 75% done with the metaconfiguration of gtk-gnutella.
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