I am working on an update of libsndfile to 1.2.0. Sadly, I was not around for the 1.1.0 update (thank you Brad), when apparently the decision was made to switch to the cmake build. Is there a particular reason for that?
Under https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile/releases they provide a tar.gz (as just a tag really) without ./configure, so to use that is to pull in autoreconf and automake etc. However, there is also a tar.xz which provides ./configure; I propose to switch back to the gnu ./configure build, considering the archivers/xzcat dependency a lesser evil than the cmake dependency. Are there any advantages to the cmake build? Are there any objections? Jan
