fate of Makefile.am

[Ralf Habacker]

>Hello,
>
>What has been decided about the Makefile.ams? Will they stay, 

I think only until the new build system is stable because maintaining two 
buildsystems is a waste of time. 

>and kept being  the preferred way of specifying build relationships?

no, because Makefile.am's are platform or at least compiler specific in some 
areas and It will probably  not possible to convert the stuff completly 
automatically. 

>Determining from the latest buildsystem commits there's a script am2bksys for 
>converting ams to SConscripts. Hence all the Makefile.ams would stay as is 
>(minus Makefile-specific stuff), and the generated SConscripts become the 
>Makefile.in/Makefile equivalent.

There will be no such distinction in the future. The Sconscript will replace 
all by one and will be parsed online, which mean changes to SConscripts could  
be performed immediatly 

my 2 cent 
Ralf