On Fri, 10.10.08 22:39, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler(a)chello.at) wrote:
> > If you want upstream to stop using libtool altogether, find
a
> > suitable replacement and convince the Automake developers to use
> > it instead.
>
> Why the h8? He was speaking in the context of "the state of the
> art" and in my oh-so-humble opinion CMake is it. The whole of the
> Autotools stack is very much... not.
+1
The suggestion to convince the automake developers to use something
other than libtool is pointless, because automake should also go
away, it's at least as obsolete, buggy, unable to maintain backwards
compatibility, annoying, a massive time waster at build time and a
major PITA for developers to code with as libtool is. The whole
autotools stack sucks. It always did, we just didn't have anything
better. We now do, so why are people still using autotools?
I actually like autotools.
Oh, and I think that cmake is a big trainwreck.
Lennart
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