Re: Moving away from make

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:50:52AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Yes, various expert FLOSS members (such as Reinhold, Carl, and
> > IIRC yourself) have stepped forward to fix a few things in the
> > builds -- but the only people who are "working" on the build
> > system "full time" are windows users.
> 
> Uh, you changed topic.  The topic was "the casual contributor", not
> "working fulltime".

My apologies.  You are correct.  I need to stop talking.
Especially these days, when I'm disagreeing with everybody for no
good reason.

> In my opinion, jumping to yet-another-system instead of cleaning up the
> current system is a step backwards, unless one can prove that the
> current system can't provide the required functionality without
> exceeding reasonable complexity, and a new system can.

Agreed.

- Graham