Re: [Vala] Flowgraphs for Gtk in Vala

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

cmake is a hassle for packaging in many ways. And autotools are not that
hard, really. It takes few minutes to get a project running.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Daniel Brendle <grindhold skarphed org>
wrote:

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> On 05/21/2015 07:19 PM, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> > Thanks to be open for other build systems.
> >
> > I've ported GXml [1] from CMake to Autotools and used the last in
> > all my Vala projects, then I think I can do the job :-)
> >
> > I'll fork your repository and make a pull request for it.
>
> Awesome. I am thrilled to see the results.
>
> But, as this is loosely related to Vala in general i'll ask right here:
>
> Where do you see the benefits of autotools over cmake in a
> vala-project? I know that the GNOME project requires its official
> sub-projects to use autotools als buildsystem and i know that debian
> packages is most simple when the source tarball uses autotools because
> one can leave the debian/rules-file as is. But does this really
> compensate for the time-costs of learning and using the (in my
> personal view) highly unintuitive autotools? Is there any technical
> aspect i am missing here?
>
> Yours, Grindhold.
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