GSoC idea : Revive autotools module

[Milian Wolff]

Detlev Casanova, 29.03.2011:
> Hello !

Hi! I'm CCing the devel ML, please put further discussion on that list.

> I mentionned the idea of reviving the autotools module for this google
> summer of code and on IRC and PovRay seemed to be interrested.
> 
> I think the project will fit for a GSoC in amount of work as there are also
> lots of improvements in autotools (such as caching, colors, progressbars
> (?), ...). And it would be great to add support for those new features.

Yes, I would think so as well. Who would step up as a mentor?

> I'm not familiar with yacc or bison but they don't seem to hard to learn
> and I have followed a course on lexical parsers this year.
> Also, I'm only a basic user of autotools and I'm not sure kde can easily
> find me a mentor who knows it well.

Indeed, this might be a problem. Personally, I have never used autotools. And 
esp. in KDE there are many people who don't look back on this dark chapter of 
build tools ;-) CMake is much preferred.

Anyways, maybe there is someone reading who a) knows autotools and b) would 
like to mentor.

> For the rest (as C++, Qt, KDE, CMake) I have a quite good experience.
> 
> I have looked at the kde svn repository at
> /trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins/automake
> There's a version which gets some patches some times but I haven't been
> able to compile it (at least, not with kdevplatform 1.2.0)
> I don't know if it's supposed to work out of the box with the latest
> version of kdevelop. If this is the case, this project idea doesn't make
> any sense.

Afaik it should be compilable, but I don't know the overall status.

> So, in the case it does make sense, I'll write a proposal.

Bye

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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