taglib's build system

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> 
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 7:56 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 02 July 2009, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> >> David Faure wrote:
> >>> (please CC me, I'm not subscribed)
> >>>
> >>> Can we get rid of the automake-based build system in kdesupport/ 
> >>> taglib?
> >>> **/Makefile.am, admin subdir, Makefile.cvs, *.in, configure.in.*,
> >>> I think it can all be removed since this has been ported to cmake
> >>> (and is compiled using cmake by default). Please confirm (or do  
> >>> the cleanup ;)
> >>
> >> David,
> >>
> >> As far as I know, taglib still supports both build systems so that
> >> projects that use taglib (of which there are a great many outside  
> >> KDE)
> >> have a buildsystem/buildsystem template that they can use.  Is  
> >> there a
> >> particular reason you want them removed, other than for cleanup?
> >
> > The initial reason was because the external url broke for some  
> > people but we
> > fixed that by using anonsvn instead, but it got us thinking as to  
> > whether the external
> > was still needed.
> >
> 
> Ahh, forgot they were externals. Maybe for now, since the automake  
> build scripts haven't changed in a long time (AFAIK), we could just  
> copy them locally into the taglib dir? This way no one would be left  
> in a bind.

OK, done.

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