[Mesa-dev] Lets talk about autotools

[Eric Anholt]

Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I can see why people may opt to not use or maintain the autotools build.
> Although I would kindly ask that we do not remove it just yet.
>
> In Mesa, we have different parts not used by different teams. As such
> we tend to remove stuff when nobody is around to maintain it anymore.
>
> That said, I'm planning to continue maintaining it and would appreciate
> if we keep it in-tree.
>
> As people may be concerned about bugreports and alike we can trivially
> add a warning (as configure is invoked) to forwards any issues to my
> email. Additionally (or alternatively) we can have an autotools bugzilla
> category with me as the default assignee.
>
> What do you guys think?

Strongly disagree.  We shouldn't be maintaining build systems for fun,
we should be doing the minimum amount of build system work to get our
actual work done quickly and reliably.
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