a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Sat Jul 26 12:44:41 UTC 2008
On Jul 26, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.cmake.org/HTML/index.html
> That one should suffice.
Nope. It offers the features, and even in a desirable fashion, but it
doesn't preclude anyone from rewriting all the intelligence encoded in
configure.ac and Makefile.am into a format that cmake can understand.
And *that's* the huge task. Rewriting autoconf, automake and libtool,
in spite of big a large undertaking, pales on the face of dropping GNU
autotools code from all projects you might want to include in a
GNU-less distro.
> If it does not, we will look for another one, but there have to be
> some out there :)
Why? If Linux folks didn't bother rewriting a majority of their
operating system, because it was already implemented and readily
available in the GNU porject, why would they have bothered with
rewriting a much smaller piece of it?
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