[Asterisk-Dev] Dev call 1.2 release discussion

[Brian West]

Autoconf and pals have been offered up twice totally working and they  
were going to help maintain it.. but in the usual fashion Digium and  
gang ran that guy off.

/b

On May 6, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:08:22PM -0400, Jerris, Michael MI wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> Jeremy McNamara
>>>
>>> Autoconf is not the answer.   I have a make menuconfig addition I am
>>> working on.   I have mimicked the basic concept of the Linux  
>>> kernel's
>>> menuconfig option.
>>>
>>
>> Autoconf is not the answer to what?  Autotools are potentially the
>> answer to many of the crossplatform issues we have had lately, and
>>
>
> well well well... this is going to be a religion war.
>
> autotools introduce a different (additional) set of dependencies
> in the build system.
>
> I may accept that auto* config files written by someone who is
> competent and fluent in the use of these tools may
> solve problems; HOWEVER, there are not so many competent
> autotools programmers, and in many cases the config files are just
> copied from other programs (bugs included) and hacked by
> trial and error until they do something acceptable on the one
> system they tried them on.
>
> Which in the long term means having unmaintainable build
> systems, and one that you have no control over once the 'guru'
> who write them stops taking care of them.
>
> Because the build system evolves a lot over time, i consider
> this a high risk.
>
>     cheers
>     luigi
>
>
>> before you ask if I will support it for the next 100 years, there  
>> have
>> been several people who have said they are wanting this AND ready to
>> support it.  A make menuconfig would also be worth a good look as  
>> well,
>> thanks.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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