Re: [xougen] FW: imake status in Xouvert

[William Lahti]

On Saturday 30 August 2003 6:27 am, address@hidden wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:49:24AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Could all of the various maintainers for different OSes get together to
> > rewrite XFree86's build to use autotools and be portable to the same
> > platforms?  Probably.  But I expect it'll require so many os-specific
> > hacks that it'll result in a mess that is slower to build and more
> > difficult to read than the existing, working imake build system.
>
> automake at all is nothing more as an collection hacks.
> it really sucks and produces more problems as it solves.
>
> So we need something completely new - designed from ground up for the
> problems of distributed development and strongly heterogenous environments.
>
> See my latest posting about that.

And you expect who to create this system?

>
> cu

-- 
William Lahti, aka xfury

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