KDevelop automake support... living in the past?

[Matt Rogers]

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On Wednesday 17 January 2007 2:53 pm, Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> 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.
>
>

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Actually, I intend to significantly expand the feature set for the automake 
support. I just haven't had time to work on it much for the last 9 months or 
so.


>
> 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...
>


-- 
Matt