KDevelop automake support... living in the past?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> 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...
>
> 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). [snip]

Ok, that counts as a reason. :-) Maybe one of the auto* gurus will feel 
pity on me and decide to take up maintainership. :-)

(Right. I'm not holding my breath.)

Thanks for the info.

-- 
Matthew
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