On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Felix Rabe wrote:
hi,
What do you folks think? Was there already a discussion on shifting the Inkscape build environment to something else on Jabber / this list / somewhere else? What was the result?
We've not discussed moving away from automake afaik. I doubt we'd ever seriously consider that due to issues such as the ones you've outlined about newer solutions being too new. Probably the best solution is for some of us to just to bite the bullet and learn it. I know at least a couple people have been doing this. This is definitely one of the weaker skill areas in Inkscape, so anyone interested in developing those skills would be very encouraged to do so.
Bryce
Autotools are just pain. I've been dealing with them in my 'REAL' work. They just suck most of the time but they can also be your best friends (When crosscompiling).. I don't see necesery to move away from autotools but inkscape build system should be cleaned a much. Example those makefile_insert stuff should gogo and that autogenerate depencies just make it worse.. There should be one person whose taking care that build is working (buildmanager?). I don't know if there such person in inkscape project. If someone wants to investigate alternatives there is SCONS (http://www.scons.org/) I haven't used it but seen big projects to get simple buildsystems with it (example http://www.blender.org).. it should work on MacOSX and Windoze also.
Tuukka