Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 11:22:09 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: An autoconf bikeshed Message-ID: <1146907329.72215.5.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060505200804.I49507@orthanc.ca> References: <200605041507.08581.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <200605051346.39823.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060505175533.GA3384@xor.obsecurity.org> <200605051414.02384.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <1146867318.62735.9.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20060505200804.I49507@orthanc.ca>
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Lyndon Nerenberg píše v pá 05. 05. 2006 v 20:11 -0600:
> On Sat, 6 May 2006, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>
> > It's also no longer imake, but autotools based.
>
> That is *not* an improvement!
>
> Have you noticed how autoconf has become such a bloated twisted mass of
> goo that it now needs its own configuration tool? It has become a parody
> of itself.
>
> This is not progress.
One major advantage of using autotools over imake is that now you can
paralellize the build using make -jX flags. You can't with imake.
That's essentially cutting the compile times in half on dual-core
computers.
One major drawback of using autotools is that every distfile grows about
250 kB of repeated code. With modular X, that's a lot of bytes to
transfer.
As for developers use, I'd say much more people today are familiar with
autotools then with imake. Imake is a dying beast. Going with mainstream
is always good to get more people involved.
--
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
Autumn changed into Winter ... Winter changed into Spring ... Spring
changed back into Autumn and Autumn gave Winter and Spring a miss and went
straight on into Summer
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