On 2/9/12 10:01 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
On 9 February 2012 14:04, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com <mailto:mich...@orlitzky.com>> wrote: I'll +1 both sides: 1) autotools is the worst thing on Earth I believe if it was as bad as you make out, it would not be as popular as it is. I would guess guess at least one third of open-source projects use it. I know William called it "autohell", but that's because he did not RTFM. I see his early attempt at the "prereq" configure script, which was written to be processed by autoconf. Just about every reccomendation in the manual was ignored. 2) sage should use it I'm not convinced of that myself. I think it would be an awful lot of work to do it properly, but if done properly it would be good for Sage IMHO.
What about cmake? That also seems pretty popular, and, for example, KDE switched from autotools to cmake.
Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about writing either autotools things or cmake things.
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