[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.19.2

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Mar 7 00:05:26 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 17:32 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> What do you propose instead of autotools?  I agree that it is utter
> garbage, and I dislike the license ... but I certainly don't like any
> of the alternatives either.  CMake, JAM, and the rest are pretty much
> all crap for one reason or another.  And hopefully you agree that
> it's at least leagues better than imake!  If there was a good
> alternative, I'd be happy to help with transitioning us away from
> autotools, but I just don't see any good option.

I wasn't really proposing anything. But if I had to, in rough order of
preference: meson, gnu make, portable make subset.

- ajax


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