Re: [Confuse-devel] state of windows build files, and more

[Josh Kropf]

Thanks for the fix Martin.  I'll give a try asap.

I just want to give my two cents on the topic of autotools.  One of the
great things about libConfuse (asside from being awesome!) is it's
"automagically" available everywhere!

It's in gentoo portage, there is a mac port, a freebsd port, a debian
package, and I'm sure it's elsewhere.  So using it in my project is
pretty safe since I know whatever platform my users are on, they can
get the dependencies easily.

Don't get me wrong, autotools is a 5000 pound gorilla!  But a lot of
these package management systems are based on it.  I don't know first
hand how much of an issue it is to maintain a package that doesn't
use autotools but I'm assuming it's an issue none the less.

Again, just my two cents...

- Josh

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:47:09 +0200, Martin Hedenfalk <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Sorry for my absense the last one and a half year. I'll try to revive
> the project.
> 
> What is the state of the build project files under the 'windows'
> directory? I don't have access/time/interest in keeping the windows
> build files up-to-date. Are they used? All of them? Are they still
> working?
> 
> I've fixed the problem with sections with only the CFGF_TITLE flag
> set as reported by Josh Kropf, and I've applied the patch by Roy
> Marples. I'll continue back through the mailing list.
> 
> Other things I'm thinking of is switching to a BSD or ISC license.
> That would make it easier for use in a commercial situation.
> 
> I will probably also de-autoconfiscate it, and thus decrease the size
> of the repo by oh so much. It's quite silly for a tiny library
> consisting of one c file, one header file and a lex file to occupy
> 7.2 MiB after configure+make.
> 
>       -martin
> 
> 
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