On Jul 19, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > Without reading those links, I already know autotools sucks, and from the > standpoint of a software developer I don't really enjoy writing autotools > files. However, from the standpoint of a package maintainer, I love autotools > for the consistency and compatibility it affords, assuming the project > developers use it correctly are keeping up to date with new versions of > autotools.
like how we had to patch many projects when 10.10 came out because they wanted to choose obsolete linker arguments? > Considering all the various build systems we encounter in MacPorts, from > autotools to xcodebuild to cmake to scons to qmake to manually crafted > Makefiles, my impression is that autotools sucks the least. I guess we can just disagree on that point :) -- Daniel J. Luke _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
