[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.6 available for testing

[Vincent Torri]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> 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.

i think that whatever i will say, you'll say the contrary :p

Vincent Torri