GSoC idea : Revive autotools module

[Detlev Casanova]

On Tuesday 29 March 2011 13:54:00 you wrote:
> Hello !
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> So, in the case it does make sense, I'll write a proposal.
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> PS: I'm Cazou on irc.
> 
> Detlev Casanova.

Err, I meant PovAddict, not PovRay !
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