Re: Alternatives to waf

2017-12-10 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 12/09/2017 09:14 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > What are the alternatives? Are there any good ones? This is one of those areas where it is easy to (legitimately) criticize, but hard to find a correct answer. I'm a (largely inactive) developer on Pidgin. Over the years, we've seen a number of proposa

Re: Alternatives to waf

2017-12-10 Thread Achim Gratz via devel
Hal Murray via devel writes: > Richard Laager said: >> While I agree that waf is obscure (and accordingly wish ntpsec used >> something else), it seems to do the right thing out of the box. > > What are the alternatives? Are there any good ones? Well, everybody agrees they hate autoconf, yet it'

Re: Alternatives to waf

2017-12-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray via devel : > > Richard Laager said: > > While I agree that waf is obscure (and accordingly wish ntpsec used > > something else), it seems to do the right thing out of the box. > > What are the alternatives? Are there any good ones? I've done a lot of research and experimenting in t

Alternatives to waf

2017-12-09 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Richard Laager said: > While I agree that waf is obscure (and accordingly wish ntpsec used > something else), it seems to do the right thing out of the box. What are the alternatives? Are there any good ones? Is there a good URL discussing the issues and tradeoffs? I'm not familiar with that