Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Friday 18 February 2005 23:47, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 
> if the build system actually provides full scripting flexibility, then
> people will make use of it. the result is probably a mostly unmaintainable
> build system.

Come on. Don't you think we've all got better things to do than hack over a 
build system ? Did you see anybody even suggesting something along the lines 
of "wow, think of all we could do with a real scripting language" ? Everybody 
wants a simpler build system that just won't stand in their way, nothing 
more.

Such doom-oriented prophecies always prove false. The same were said about KDE 
and C++ when it started. "C++ is too complex, booo, they'll have 
unmaintanable code booooo".

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