Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> writes: > Ok, this is going to be controversial (or maybe not).
Nah! > I'd like to drop autotools and just use cmake as build system. > > Reasons: > * I don't use autotools so whenever something new happens i regularly forget > to try it works there (as proven last time with the nss includes) > * cmake is more portable (i.e. doesn't uses shell scripts) > * cmake gets releases more often > * cmake code is easier to read (for me) > * AFAICS Not even gnome (which was the "last" big autotools user) plans to > use autotools anymore Not maintaining two build systems is enough reason for me. > > Only issues: > * We don't have gtk-doc support > * We don't have make dist-xz support (which i use for releases) And gobject-introspection, we have all that in WebKit, I think we can take something from there. Regarding release tarballs, we could probably use git archive, or a simple script using git archive as a base in case we need to add any generated file to the tarball. > > But i'm sure both should be fairly easy to add, just never cared to do it > since the only times i use them are for releases. Yes, I can help with that. > Comments? +1 > Cheers, > Albert > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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