http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/01/04/gnome-using-waf/ Blog about geeky stuff Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/01/04/gnome-using-waf/#comment-36 Anonymous Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:56:53 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/01/04/gnome-using-waf/#comment-36 I hate autotools and I can safely say that they have raised the level of entry of new contributors. I was lost myself for a long time where all the m4 and autotools foo scared the shit out of me. I was thinking that I couldn't possible contribute without grokking all this (which I now know is totally untrue, since I'm a deskbar maintainer :-)) I had a small flirt with QT4 back when it was originally released. It took me about 10 minutes to get going with the project/building tools related to this - I don't remember their names anymore, but I clearly remember thinking: "Wow - can things really be this easy?". I realize and appreciate that autotools has a lot of nifty things that make them great tools, I just really dislike working with them. I hate autotools and I can safely say that they have raised the level of entry of new contributors. I was lost myself for a long time where all the m4 and autotools foo scared the shit out of me. I was thinking that I couldn't possible contribute without grokking all this (which I now know is totally untrue, since I'm a deskbar maintainer :-)) I had a small flirt with QT4 back when it was originally released. It took me about 10 minutes to get going with the project/building tools related to this - I don't remember their names anymore, but I clearly remember thinking: “Wow - can things really be this easy?”. I realize and appreciate that autotools has a lot of nifty things that make them great tools, I just really dislike working with them.

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