Re: build systems

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:32:19 +0100, Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote:

> At one point someone has to do the grunt work of switching every module
> to the new build system (+ ensuring it is possible). I don't believe
> most maintainers will do this (even if it is 10x better, maintainable,
> etc). From what I read, this is how the KDE switch was mostly done (a
> few interested people who did stuff).

This sounds like a perfect GnomeGoal to me, given the condition that the  
task
is not too difficult to accomplish. I.e. it should at least partially be  
suitable for
new and intermediate level Gnome contributors.

I'd like to use this opportunity to  ask people to really consider a new  
build
system; autotools are painful slow, I can see this occasionally on my old  
1Ghz
machine when I use it. And up to this day I lack a complete overall  
understanding
of how all those tools work.

I don't know waf yet, but I intend to scrutinise it in the near future.

Regards
--
Christian Kirbach
Christian Kirbach googlemail com