[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[William A. Rowe Jr.]

On 1/20/2010 2:26 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> 
> Imho, it will be cleaner if you remove all the Makefile's. Plenty of
> Makefile's are also difficult to maintain. Most of the OS (linux,
> solaris, bsd, mac os and windows, which is certainly more than 98% of
> the OS) can use the autotools. You can keep Visual Studio projects
> somewhere if you want. Some support should be dropped, like msdos
> support (we are in 2010)

On the counterargument; zlib really is one of the most portable apps
in the ecosystem, irrespective of your or my thoughts on which platforms
remain 'current' :)

But deriving a makefile for vs 6 or 2008 really is trivial.  I have no
cycles to submit the changes I use again until this coming weekend, but
would agree that per-platform Makefiles aren't the way to go; openssl
has the right idea with a templater and per-platform tweaks.

Sorry I haven't caught up on the 1.2.3.xxx series but looking forwards
to testing in the coming 2 weeks on a laundry list of platforms.