Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.216.42]:56743 "EHLO mail-qa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbaBCNkD (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:40:03 -0500 Received: by mail-qa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id k4so10153594qaq.1 for ; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:40:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52EF9C2E.5030202@opensuse.org> (sfid-20140203_144008_789068_4A55BA1A) Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:39:58 -0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q3Jpc3RpYW4gUm9kcsOtZ3Vleg==?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [iw] Make the build system automake based References: <1391319050-100614-1-git-send-email-crrodriguez@opensuse.org> <1391424732.4488.4.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20140203_115223_694753_9E04CB22) <1391424860.4488.6.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1391424860.4488.6.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: El 03/02/14 07:54, escribió: > On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 11:52 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> I *might* be open to switching to something like >> cmake > > [...] something *sane* like cmake [...] > > (FWIW, don't even argue that part about auto*, it's decidedly not sane > to have a build system that needs roughly two dozen versions installed > concurrently to build different software) > > johannes > Well, unfortunately we disagree on everything. cmake is NOT sane though I could write an equivalent in few minutes, read the book, been there, done that.. it sucks. Autotools does not require two dozen versions installed to build anything, this is a apparently an insanity found only in debian distributions. Looks like I am going to stop wasting keystrokes about now..people who have similar opinions invariably do not understand the problems faced by distributors or packagers.