linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

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Message-ID: <87zm2aegez.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
Date:	Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:36:52 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	7eggert@....de
Cc:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	List util-linux-ng <util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

On 5 Jul 2007, Bodo Eggert outgrape:
> I'm really really happy if I read 'edit Makefile.conf and run make...'.

autobuild scripts find it a hell of a lot more annoying to edit a different
makefile for every project than to run one unchanging config.site...

It's hardly a killer, but it would be a step backwards IMO :( by all
means switch to a nicer build system: cmake, perhaps? but ditching
standardized build systems entirely is not so good.

-- 
`... in the sense that dragons logically follow evolution so they would
 be able to wield metal.' --- Kenneth Eng's colourless green ideas sleep
 furiously
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