Re: Autoconf/Automake

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From: Johannes Schindelin
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 3:58 pm

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Yann Dirson wrote:


You know as well as I that this comparison is unfair. I am _NOT_ a 
corporate person. I hope that you do not judge me as a complete airhead.

The point is: the right tool solves the problem. You can have a tool which 
is mighty cool, but way too powerful (AKA complicated).

As for CVS: there _are_ a few use cases where CVS is just the right tool. 
There are many more use cases where git is more than adequate, where CVS 
is not.

_BUT_: there are cases where something like autoconf/jam/cmake/blablabla 
is adequate, but I still fail to see why for git, the makefile system 
should not work. It is the most transparent way to configure a make system 
I encountered. It is short, concise, and does the job. And I understand 
it. As opposed to autoconf/jam/cmake/blablabla.

Hth,
Dscho
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Autoconf/Automake, Pavel Roskin, (Wed Jun 14, 3:27 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Linus Torvalds, (Wed Jun 14, 3:45 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Bertrand Jacquin, (Wed Jun 14, 3:54 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Timo Hirvonen, (Wed Jun 14, 4:18 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Yann Dirson, (Thu Jun 15, 12:24 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Alex Riesen, (Thu Jun 15, 6:31 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Yann Dirson, (Thu Jun 15, 9:32 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jun 15, 10:02 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Olivier Galibert, (Thu Jun 15, 10:48 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Phil Richards, (Thu Jun 15, 1:10 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Yakov Lerner, (Thu Jun 15, 1:17 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Timo Hirvonen, (Thu Jun 15, 1:32 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Jun 15, 1:42 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Yann Dirson, (Thu Jun 15, 2:14 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Yann Dirson, (Thu Jun 15, 3:05 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Jun 15, 3:54 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Jun 15, 3:58 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Jun 15, 4:10 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Nikolai Weibull, (Thu Jun 15, 11:51 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Jerome Lovy, (Fri Jun 16, 2:06 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Petr Baudis, (Fri Jun 16, 11:31 am)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Yann Dirson, (Fri Jun 16, 1:17 pm)
Re: Autoconf/Automake, Petr Baudis, (Fri Jun 16, 1:42 pm)