Re: [Moose-g3-devel] Collaboration Tools, auto config

[Michael E. <mie...@gm...>]

Hugo and I had discussed the autoconf and automake scripts as a good
place for Mando to start working with the Moose code, since we thought
they should be done sooner and later, and also because we didn't
figure anyone else wanted to.

On 8/17/06, Josef Svitak <js...@ya...> wrote:
>
> --- Greg Hood <gh...@ps...> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that configure is badly needed.  I am familiar with autoconf and
> > have written configure scripts before, so I might be able to contribute
> > to this.  Had anyone else already planned on writing a configure script
> > for MOOSE?   As far as Windows goes, I would favor a development environment
> > that is based on the Cygwin tools (which will give us autoconf, make, etc.).
> > with the understanding that the final executable should not require the
> > user to have Cygwin installed.
> > --Greg
>
> In theory (meaning I've never tried it), you don't have to install Cygwin to
> use the autoconf tools. See
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/autoconf.htm It just needs perl and
> msvcrt.dll (MS Visual C++ runtime library - think you'd be hard-pressed to find
> a windows system without this installed!). Autoconf on *nix generates _shell_
> scripts. If windows needs a shell to run, you might be able to use
> http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/
>
> (in response to Upi's off-list comments, but applicable here)
> IMHO, it's NEVER too early to start using this kind of tool. The time it will
> save every developer will quickly dwarf any time spent ramping up.
>
> joe
>
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