From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8595 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2010 23:09:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 8578 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Feb 2010 23:09:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:09:21 +0000 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87aav0kit7.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: gsl-discuss mailing list Subject: Re: Feedback from GSL folks on libflame 4.0 In-Reply-To: <1266613086.27033.124.camel@manticore.lanl.gov> References: <4a00655d1002171047t4e87fb85w88b609245e3f9a8e@mail.gmail.com> <4B7D90B5.4020707@cs.utexas.edu> <87y6ipozqi.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> <1266613086.27033.124.camel@manticore.lanl.gov> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: d5af708ef3d18c5bda9b2a5e73c6bce7 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q1/txt/msg00042.txt.bz2 At Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:58:06 -0700, Gerard Jungman wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:41 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Brian Gough wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for using autoconf. I think it is a good thing. > > > > Yeah, I don't really think of them as optional these days. They are far > > from perfect and often a PITA, but what they do is necessary. > > You guys are missing the point. The question is not > "autotools or nothing" but "autotools or cmake". As Robert says, it's a question of standardisation. I have nothing against cmake, on a purely techical level it may be better but autotools is the defacto standard and that is worth more in practice.