GSoC idea : Revive autotools module

[Detlev Casanova]

On Tuesday 29 March 2011 20:06:33 Milian Wolff wrote:
> 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.

That's kind of what I want to know, is it too advanced to be finished within a 
gsoc ?

Detlev.
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