Re: Automake GSoC idea

2011-03-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding the SoC list back in Cc: ] Hello, * Daniel Herring wrote on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:06:45AM CET: Refactor Automake so it can easily be extended for new file types. Yes, this is a good idea, too. Actually, there is a pending patch from Valentin that does an important first step in

Automake GSoC idea

2011-03-09 Thread Daniel Herring
Refactor Automake so it can easily be extended for new file types. Examples: - Qt preprocessed files (e.g. moc and linguist generate sources to link) - IDL files (may generate headers and several sources to link) - NVidia's CUDA Automake has many rules baked in; there is no clear extension