Re: A Gtk's build system ?

[Bernhard Schuster <schuster bernhard gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Matthias Clasen 
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:
>
> >  However, building Gtk+ is not trivial and I am sure waf is going to 
> > require
> >  some fixing before it can support a full build, if people want to 
> > take on
> >  the task of setting up a branch and checking what it would look 
> > like, I
> >  would be happy to help upstreaming any extensions needed (I have 
> > commit
> >  rights in the waf repository). On the other hand I wouldn't keep my 
> > hopes
> >  too high that the Gtk+ maintainers are going to happily move over 
> > unless
> >  someone shows what major improvements the port would bring.
>
> To repeat what Emmanuele already said: I have zero interest in
> switching GTK+ build systems. autoconf works pretty well for us.
> Applications can of course use any build system their maintainer
> prefers, but I don't see why GTK+ should be providing a build system
> for you... we have our hands full providing you a toolkit.

The branch should be temporary to get (possibly required) fixes 
upstream, at least that is the sane thing to do.