[sane-devel] Autotools generated files and CVS

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On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> >> autofoo one has to know.  As for the amount of pain involved, I can
> >> only think of the time it takes.  Julien mentions versioning issues
> >> and broken deployment but I have little experience with that.
> >
> > You obviously never had to work with broken libtool versions, which is
> > about every libtool version until something like 3 years ago, and even
> > then, there have been some pretty broken versions after that too.
> 
> Sorry, I use Debian ;-P
> 
> > If going with automake means we have to put up with the maintainer
> > mode crap and bootstrapping the build system after every pull, then
> > thanks, but no thanks, I'm keeping the current one.
> 
> We can make maintainer mode an opt-in and keep bootstrapping limited
> to clean checkouts.
> 

A bit off topic: Has CMake ever been an option? I have had very positive experiences with it.

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