Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:00:32 -0500 (EST) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change in the Qt port. Message-ID: <XFMail.991108140032.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <19991108122230.G78826@lovett.com>
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On 08-Nov-99 Ade Lovett wrote: > Here's a thought (for QT/QT2 at least). How about creating a qt2-config > script (similar to gtk12-config, glib12-config, gnome-config and the > rest of them) that takes a couple of simple arguments: > > qt2-config --cflags > qt2-config --libs > > etc.. etc.. > > and talk to the QT authors about getting such a script as part of the > base QT system. > > Sure, until such a system is adopted (if at all) by those writing QT > code, things are likely to continue to be a pain in the ass, but it's > probably a good step in the right direction. Great idea.. too bad it's going to be quite some time before such a config script is adopted, if at all (just as you said). :\ >> Granted, it's not _THAT_ difficult, just seems quite an unnecessary >> expenditure, and can seem like a big job when you have 10 or so patches >> (like gnomelibs,xemacs,etc). I probably speak for quite a few of the >> porters around here.. > > Me included :) Probably a good 90% of the effort involved in bringing > up a new version of a GNOME port is hacking the patches when the > Makefile/configure files changed. However, things are made substantially > easier for GNOME with the use of 'gnome-config', the majority of the > hacks are to put most everything (except locale information) under > .../share/gnome/*, instead of just share/* I thank God (I'm an atheist, which makes it even more ironic) every day that I don't have to try to maintain that enormous thing! Same goes for XEmacs, KDE, egcs/gcc-devel, etc. The people maintaining those deserve real credit! ;-) -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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