Re: A Gtk's build system ?

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

I should hope not.

Autotools is indeed the worst possible solution, except for all the
others.  (With apologies to Churchill.)  But it exists and it is a
known quantity.

It solves problems like generation of tar balls, checking that the tar
balls actually
work, running test suites, checking translation completeness, handles cross-
compilation (to a point), multiple architectures, parallel builds,
etc.  Hard stuff.

(It also handles hardware last observed in the late 70s, but you
aren't harmed by
that.)

I really do not see a need to sink time into replacing all that.
Especially not if
the simplification consists of using the ostrich approach -- "*I*
don't have that
problem so it is not important."

Re your specific concerns: linux, osx, win32 all have the unix tools;
there ought
to be a macro provided to find glib-compile-resources; with counceling you will
get over the ugliness.

Morten





On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Victor Aurélio Santos
<victoraur santos gmail com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a plan to write a new build system or use another existing
> build system for Gtk instead of Autotools ?
>
> I ask this because autotools is something "not good enough" for me.
> It's syntax is ugly and bad to remember, the platform that will run
> autotools requires a UNIX tool-set (sh, make, etc...), there's no
> support to glib's features like resources the developer have manually
> find the glib-compile-resources executable and write rules to build
> the resources, and so on.
>
> I also think that Gtk should have something "Gtk's build system", Like
> Qt's qmake.
>
> If not, do anyone know if GNOME plan this ?
> Note that jhbuild is not a build system, it's more a "build bot".
>
> Thanks, I'll be happy to hear your plans and pros/cons of move to
> another build system.
> --
> Victor Aurélio Santos
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