Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Imake is considered dead-except-for-routine-maintenance upstream as far > as I can tell, so best practice would be to migrate away from it. > Unless someone plans to adopt it.
imake the program, and xmkmf, are *probably* not that horribly difficult to maintain, apart from obnoxious C preprocessor issues. However, imake is very, *very* heavily dependent on the exact details of the X configuration. If upstream is abandoning imake, my worry on trying to maintain it would be that the X configuration may drift away from what imake can deal with. I've done that sort of X configuration hacking to make imake install things in appropriate locations and use the right compilers in the past. It's not fun work; it's painful, tedious, and exceedingly boring, and I wouldn't recommend it if you can avoid it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
