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Oh no...
by Me on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @06:36

Autoconf/Auromake was already pretty bad, but at least (sometimes) only bash was required, now I will need to install another one of those scripting languages I really don't need nor want to have installed. Ok ok, so bash is probably not the most elegant way to program something, but at least bash is compact in the sense that it doesn't spill a shitload of files all over the filesystem (often in the wrong places). I was pretty pissed when I found out one had to have perl installed to get Gtk and GIMP to build. Has Jam been considered as an alternative?

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Re: Oh no...
by Guillaume Laurent on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @07:19

Yes, pretty much all alternatives have been considered, and the only serious contenders where scons/bksys and cmake.

Second, have you ever tried to maintain an auto*-based build ? I have, and like anyone who has I can tell you how incredibly brain-damaged this system is. And it does "spill a shitload of files all over the filesystem", much more than python.

As for not wanting to install python, seriously... what's the big deal. Apparently you're resisting it for purely "religious" reasons, well, too bad.

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Re: Oh no... by Me on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @09:20

Re: Oh no... by Dolio on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @09:48

Re: Oh no... by Me on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @12:11

Re: Oh no... by Dolio on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @16:41

Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @11:58

Re: Oh no... by Me on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @12:24
Re: Oh no... by Me on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @12:25

Re: Oh no... by ac on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @13:10
Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @22:11

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @00:26

Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @00:36

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @00:53

Re: Oh no... by renox on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @07:12

Re: Oh no... by Scott Wheeler on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @01:09

Re: Oh no... by Me on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @08:12

Re: Oh no... by ac on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @12:04

Re: Oh no... by ac on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @12:22

Re: Oh no... by Shie Erlich on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @13:39

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @00:28

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @20:36

Re: Oh no... by anonymous_curious on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @14:15
Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @22:27

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @00:50

Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @03:22

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @04:02

Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @04:24

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @06:29

Re: Oh no... by Guillaume Laurent on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @07:16
Re: Oh no... by Reinhold on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @14:23

Re: Oh no... by ac on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @00:57

Re: Oh no... by Kevin Krammer on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @03:29

Re: Oh no... by ac on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @03:49

Re: Oh no... by Nicolas Goutte on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @07:01

Re: Oh no... by aleXXX on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @06:30

Re: Oh no... by ac on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @06:58

Re: Oh no... by The Badger on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @09:27
Re: Oh no... by Morty on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @17:10

Re: Oh no... by ac on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @01:06

Re: Oh no... by Roberto Alsina on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @02:20

Re: Oh no... by ac on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @02:24

Re: Oh no... by Christian Loose on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @03:20

Re: Oh no... by ac on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @03:47

Re: Oh no... by Morty on Thursday 15/Sep/2005, @08:52

Re: Oh no... by Reinhold on Wednesday 14/Sep/2005, @14:30

Re: Oh no... by tfry on Friday 16/Sep/2005, @04:37

Re: Oh no...
by anonymous_curious on Tuesday 13/Sep/2005, @14:30

> I was pretty pissed when I found out one had to have Perl installed to get Gtk and GIMP to build.

Did you know that building KDE programs from the repository in KDE3 required Perl and M4 ? Did you know that unsermake was (and still is) required to build KDE4, and that it was Python-based too ?

> Has Jam been considered as an alternative?

Yes, and Ant too, and many other tools.

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