Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 01:35, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 23:14, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > Yes, you can also write maintainable code in Perl if you really have to.
> > The point is that it's easier to do that in Python rather than with the
> > current system, so people are more likely to do it.
>
> Well, thats entirely my point.. its much more likely to have a maintainable
> automake file rather than a python script, because the latter has so much
> more flexibility and power.

No, because automake's syntax isn't expressive enough to cleanly write 
everything you need in a makefile. So you're bound to go down the same road 
which led from Makefile to autoconf and then to automake, piling up one fugly 
hack over another.

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