2 Mar
2004
2 Mar
'04
9:42 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:28:12AM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
Fair enough. ./configure etc. is without a doubt THE
way to distribute
free software though. Most people find it quite annoying when an app
doesn't follow the 'standard'.
Users simply don't like hand-editing and copying configuration files
around. At the very simplest level I don't want to edit the Makefile to
make AMS use my preferred CFLAGS, and know where to find QT, and install
to /usr. I just want to "./configure --prefix=/usr" and be done with it.
On of the reasons I try to avoid automake/autoconf is that when for some
reason it doesn't work on your system, you're lost unless you are an
expert with those tools, and they are not the easiest ones. A cleanly
written Makefile is a lot easier to fix in that case, and requires less
expert knowledge.
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Fons