[poppler] RFC: Dropping autotools

[Albert Astals Cid]

El divendres, 18 d’agost de 2017, a les 0:13:44 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> Ok, this is going to be controversial (or maybe not).
> 
> I'd like to drop autotools and just use cmake as build system.
> 
> Reasons:
>  * I don't use autotools so whenever something new happens i regularly
> forget to try it works there (as proven last time with the nss includes)
>  * cmake is more portable (i.e. doesn't uses shell scripts)
>  * cmake gets releases more often
>  * cmake code is easier to read (for me)
>  * AFAICS Not even gnome (which was the "last" big autotools user) plans to
> use autotools anymore
> 
> 
> Only issues:
>  * We don't have gtk-doc support
>  * We don't have make dist-xz support (which i use for releases)
> 
> 
> But i'm sure both should be fairly easy to add, just never cared to do it
> since the only times i use them are for releases.
> 
> Comments?

So it seems we have mostly agreed on this and are blocked on the gtk-doc 
support.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
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