[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Enrico Weigelt]

Vincent Torri wrote:

> keeping support for OS that are not used anymore is completely useless.

How do you know which OS'es are still used out there ?

> Autotools are a framework used mostly to create Makefiles (they may have
> other uses than creating Makefile's though). 

Yeah, it's a fine tool to make your code ugly and broken.
I'm just got too lazy for counting the autoconf hassle I had in
recent years, especially when it comes to things like crosscompiling.

> In addition, if you have a specific compiler and a shell, just do :
> 
> CC=my_compiler ./configure

Guess what, that's already possible w/ hand-written configure
script for years.

> and you'll have the correct Makefile's for your OS. 

You really believe that ?

> You just have to correctly write the configure.ac file.

Yeah, that's the real challenge. You won't believe what horrible
configure.in's I've seen within the last decade. Crap like
AC_TRY_RUN's is just the nicest of all.


For such a small and mature package like zlib I don't really
see the need for such a major change.


cu
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