[colord] Can we get back support for autotools? (Richard Hughes)

[Peter Linnell]

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> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:59:02 +0100
> From: Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
> To: Ne01eX <ne01ex at rambler.ru>
> Cc: colord list <colord at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Subject: Re: [colord] Can we get back support for autotools?
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> On 30 April 2018 at 12:05, Ne01eX <ne01ex at rambler.ru> wrote:
> > Can we get back support for autotools?  
> 
> Nobody understood autotools. I've been developing software for over a
> decade, and I understand more about meson in a few days of using it
> than the combination of autoconf, automake, intltool, and assorted m4
> helpers.

I can completely understand and support Richard's move to an
alternative to autotools. We on the Scribus team called them autohell.

The choice of the language of the build tool are really not relevant. 

We on the Scribus team converted to cmake which is C++. There is no
need to know C++ to use Cmake.

What I have seen of meson seems favorable and many GTK/GNOME projects
are migrating owing to its simplcity.

Just my $0.02

Cheers,

Peter