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Re: wm/ctwm without cmake



Am Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 06:32:55PM -0800 schrieb Greg A. Woods:
> It is the worst disaster in software configuration and construction
> tools I've ever seen or heard about.  It seriously feels like it was
> designed by amateurs with little to no experience in any aspect of
> software development, and it completely ignores all lessons of all past
> and existing similar tools.  Even PHP was a better designed language
> right from the beginning, and it was designed by a self-admitted
> software amateur who was actually a chemistry student!

Yeah, except that cmake is actually one of the few mostly sane
alternatives to autoconf. It's not going away and I at least will oppose
any pkgsrc patches that replace it "just because".

Joerg


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