[Pkg-ace-devel] x.7.6 is out

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> The only issue I have with the traditional build system is that moving
> away from autotools will not improve the autotools situation. So far no
> sponsor has shown to fund this effort, so in the end if no one
> volunteers the effort will remain incomplete.

Yes, I agree. But we do depend on users to make this effort complete, we
as Remedy IT can't just do this for fun, we try to assist as much as we
can, but at the end it is just a matter of priorities.

> We've spent a lot of time working on this with J.T. and Pau,
> discovered and fixed blockers, and I believe it was worth it. But
> indeed it was time consuming, and frustrating.
>
> If we want a fresh ACE+TAO then I agree: we need the traditional,
> safer, compilation method.
>
> How about this?
>   - All linux platforms switch back to the traditional method
>   - Others (GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Hurd) stay on autotools method, even if
>     they do not compile

When you want to stay with autoconf, it doesn't make sense to try to
resolve problems just during packaging. Than we need to have daily builds
with autoconf for the environments you want to package. That way problems
can be resolved on svn head and packaging is now just packaging. Now the
packaging also implies doing a port and that is just impossible, you are
always behind the reality. Would someone be willing to setup and run daily
builds for the platforms so that at least someone can fix the problems in
advance?

Johnny