Platform ports vs. multiplatform

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

I'm currently working on an downstream fork (means: regularily
rebased) for an GNU/Linux-only version.

The idea is: make it trivial to build/install on common GNU/Linux
distros, so no additional magic is required for packaging.

Major points:

* drop all bundled libraries that are already available on
  mainline distros
* simplify the import logic (eg. use pkg-config whereever possible)
* drop all specific logic for other platforms
* drop EPM stuff

Once that's working, I'd like to extend it to other platforms
(eg. win32).

Yet to be explored: can/should cygwin,ming32,android be treated
as GNU favours or be separated platforms.


If anyone's interested in this, just let me know.


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