KDevelop automake support... living in the past?

[Jens Dagerbo]

The Automake Manager hasn't had a dedicated maintainer since.. well, since it 
was written, I guess. (Which judging by the copyright declarations was mostly 
back in 2002). Since then no one with any non-trivial autotools knowledge has 
displayed any interest in it. The rest of us have fixed the odd problem here 
and there when we found it, but that's about it. Sucks, but there you have 
it.

It's rather unclear at this point to what degree KDevelop4 will support 
automake, but my educated guess says it will not significantly expand the 
feature set found in KDevelop3's AM. 


// jens


On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:39, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Every time I pop over to the autoconf list with some KDE question, I get
> beat over the head with 'why are you doing this, it was deprecated years
> ago?'. Is this a "problem" that people are generally aware of, or it AM
> just not being updated to track auto*'s deprecations?
>
> In this case, I am thinking particularly of the auto-generated files
> when making a new auto*-based project. (There are similar issues however
> in KDE's source distribution that I mentioned - to resounding silence,
> except from the autoconf side - on kde-devel.)
>
> ...Just wondering if there is a reason...