Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

[Derek G. <fri...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM Paul T. Bauman <ptb...@gm...> wrote:

> You guys get the blame for this one. There was insistence from MOOSE
> developers that the bootstrapped build system be included in the master
> tree. I was against it.
>

No way.  It wasn't in the old build system - and is in the new.  YOU were
the one who was trying to take away a feature (multiple simultaneous builds
with different METHODS) that *everyone* was (and had been for a long time
and still is) actually using to get features *you* wanted with Automake.

All we did was complain (in the same way you are now when I suggested we
remove build system features) that something we use everyday was going away.

I will agree that what we ended up with was a compromise that isn't the
best.  I'm not saying we try to fix it within the current build system...
but it is something I would like to fix in a new one.

Derek