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From: | Guido Draheim |
Subject: | Re: Common to use Autotools just to avoid Makefile work even if no portability concerns??? |
Date: | Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:02:07 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 |
address@hidden schrieb:
I need to confess a dirty little secret. I don't really worry about running my program on anything other than Red Hat Linux (for now). However, I hope to never write another Makefile again. Is it common/OK to just use Autotools because it: 1. looks cool 2. avoids Makefile work 3. people expect it 4. Did I mention it avoids Makefile work? Even if I don't have big portability concerns?
The autotools have their own limitations that you will surely come across when going into that direction. Speaking as a wizard: you are trying to use the autotools for a vertical application but the autotools are designed primarily for horizontal projects. Some parts of the problems of vertical development projects are currently targetted with pkg-config helpers but in many vertical appplication development areas you need to handle a lot more - especially modules and plugins all around. There are some development environments that are better suited for inhouse realization - most of these are commercial however, perhaps just eclipse is big enough but I don't want to assert that since I did not have a look at it for real. btw, please calm down a little, you are trying hard to be seen as a trouble maker. Just a hint.
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