Conrad Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 02:21:10 am Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 01:36 -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 01:31:20 am Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> * a crack ridden design (using a central database), reinvention of
>>> imake, comprising it's design flaws.
>> Reinvention of build-system-tools-in-general. Like a new version of
>> autotools (they don't pretend to be backwards compatible).
> The autotools do not apply a central data base, they keep
> "configuration" and "installation" as separate jobs. cmake lumps
them
> together.
>
> It's a different approach.
Saves resources on koji, if nothing less.
This should not be a consideration. We're talking about something that
is used by upstream so koji should never enter the picture. OTOH, this
could just be a poorly formulated sentence ;-)
-Toshio