[poppler] RFC: Dropping autotools

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 16 de setembre de 2017, a les 18:49:55 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> 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.

Since Carlos just commited the gtk-doc support I will be removing the 
autotools based build system in a few hours.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > poppler mailing list
> > poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
> 
> _______________________________________________
> poppler mailing list
> poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler