Re: What does the file extension ".hg" mean?

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 24/06/2013 06:58, Gavin Lambert wrote:

> I know you want all of this to work straight out of git without requiring
> extra tools.  But that's simply not how autotools or gmmproc projects work.
> So unless you use the tarball instead, you'll just be fighting an uphill
> battle.

Thanks Gavin, I do appreciate that Rome wasn't built in a day and 
libraries such as gtkmm are always "works in progress".  However, when 
it comes to auto-generated sources, other libraries seem to be moving 
towards Perl, Python or (occasionally) their own, custom tools.  All of 
these tend to be usable across a wider range of compilers, which is 
highly desirable IMHO.

The situation at my end is that I build the 'Mixbus' DAW from Harrison.  
Essentially, it's a fork of Paul Davis's 'Ardour' project.  I work on 
the Windows build.  Up until recently I did in fact build all the 
supporting libraries from tarballs - but keeping those libraries 
up-to-date (and in sync!) can become a monumental task.  I'm trying to 
move towards Git (and similar) as a way of simplifying that process in 
the future.  Up to now, it's working pretty well for us.  I hope the 
gtkmm maintainers will recognise the value of what gtk (and other 
libraries) are doing by introducing modern alternatives for programmers 
who can't use the older, "non-evolving" technologies, such as M4.  By 
all means, keep M4 for the programmers who want it or like it but 
flexibility is important too.

John