On 2/7/07, Jürgen Hötzel <juergen@hoetzel.info> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:09:46PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
+* feature for 3.1: revamp the autotools system. I'd LOVE to use a manual system + like wmii and friends do. It'd be real nice if we could just do away with + autotools altogether.
Whats the problem with autotools/libtools?
Technically, nothing. It's more personal preference than anything else. I like manual methods. make is a great system and really doesn't need layer upon layer to work. There are many very large projects out there which don't need autotools and get away with it flawlessly (i.e. the kernel). My TODO list isn't set in stone, it's more or less things I'd *like* to do. ftjam, perforce jam, bjam, cmake, scons, all of them - they all overcomplicate the process it seems. But again, this is just my opinion which isn't generally the opinion of everyone else.