Re: [Gimp-developer] What about switching from Gtk+ to Qt

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 12-08-06 04:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Now my page ( http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ ) gives many
> valid reasons why CMake is superior and GNU Autotools
> is inferior, and as a result concludes it is valid to nickname Autotools "Autohell"
> as a derogatory name, just based on their own deficiencies.

Some good information on that web page, Shlomi. One comment about the page. 
It has a heading of "Disadvantages of GNU Autotools" but the points below 
start by mentioning an advantage of CMake instead of a disadvantage of the 
Autotools.

One advantage of CMake you didn't list is how it can do builds to a 
sub-directory of the source tree. I found this helpful when building a 
standard version of Blender and an experimental version with some added 
options without having to copy the entire source tree to a separate 
directory to do the two builds.

Based on my initial experience trying to learn how to use the GNU Autotools, 
the term "Autohell" seems appropriate. I found documentation on using it was 
hard to find and what I found was not that useful. A book I picked up from 
somewhere called "GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool" helped a little but 
not that much. The main way I found to learn how to use the tools in the 
early days was by studying existing uses of the tools from various projects 
(ie. GIMP) and copying/modifying the files.

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