[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Enrico Weigelt]

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. 

No, please DO NOT bring us into autoconf hell!

We could add a bit more platform detection logic into ./configure
to get rid of the separate Makefiles.

Oh, BTW, if we had a good VCS, we could put the stuff for certain
unpopular targets into their own branches ... ;-o

> somewhere if you want. Some support should be dropped, like msdos
> support (we are in 2010)

Well, some of my customers still have DOS-machines running ...

> Also, just a note: Why not separating the source code from the lib and
> from the binaries ? Having a directory structure like:

You're talking about the tools, like minigzip, etc ?
I'd rather prefer moving them to their own packages.


cu
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