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Re: Remove cdrtools



Wouter Verhelst wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:58:13AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
>> On 12-Aug-06, 09:09 (CDT), Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org> wrote:
>> > At 1155391794 past the epoch, Bernd Schubert wrote:
>> > > Btw, why always the autotools while there's this nice
>> > > cmake?
>> > 
>> > I've never used cmake myself, so I can't speak for how nice
>> > it is, but autotools (for all its problems) is very
>> > widespread.
>> 
>> So is syphilis. That doesn't make it desirable.
> 
> Syphilis is a disease. Software usually isn't.
> 
> In the case of autotools, the fact is that usually it's configure.ac or
> Makefile.am being horribly broken, rather than the autotools.
> 
> If used properly, autotools usually do their job; and pretty well, too.
> 

Just have a look here http://lwn.net/Articles/188693


Cheers,
Bernd



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