Re: autotools gives autopain

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:34:20AM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 18:13 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> > > > Gnome currently uses the GNU Autotools for building all projects.
> > > > Autotools is hard to work with and complicated and there are lots of
> > > > techically superior build systems out there. Therefore, I suggest that
> > > > GNOME should gradually replace Autotools with scons (www.scons.org).
> > >
> > > I'd suggest that this would not be a very interesting topic of discussion on
> > > this list *unless* you converted one of the existing GNOME modules to scons
> > 
> > Right. That's the easy part. Any GNOME modules wanna sign up for a
> > FREE conversion to scons? Limited supply, order now!
> > 
> starting with simplest stuff, like small applications or libraries, like
> libgnome, libgnomeui, might be a good start

If you use the baz mirrors you can follow cvs while making the conversion
and collaborate with whoever else wants to help you.

</end baz whoring>

sri