Re: [xougen] Building from source [was: Regarding server side widgets]

[weigelt]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:19:13AM -0700, David Ross wrote:

<snip>
> I am all for simple, whether it is nCurses or tcl/tk or 
> perl/tk or [your mothers favourite menuing/gui system]. 
This would really be nice. 

But before writing megabytes of configure stuff, you should 
perhaps think about my idea with an new build system, which
models the software in modules an features. From such an quite
abstract modelling, it should be very easy doing those things
like config menus.

<snip>
> Am I making sense here?  I would like to mention my positive 
> experience with the Autotools in compiling
> stuff on MacOSX and Linux[Debian/Mandrake/Redhat] and Cygwin.
I personally have very bad experiences with automake + friends.
Sometimes it's almost unusable. On every third package I have to 
hack something in to make it work some way.


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