Build system, WAS: Re: APR nmake makefiles

[Sander Striker <st...@apache.org>]

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Mladen;
> 
>   I'd prefer you don't commit this, *yet*.  I agree the build
> system needs refactoring.  But also believe that more cruft in
> the tree will only confuse users.

I agree.

> And your specific solution does not lend itself to being maintained,
> particularly by the unix hackers in the room :-/

By anyone IMHO.

> Question; do we want to adopt (finish adopting) svn's build
> system coded in python?

I certainly would like to, yes.

> If we can get to a point where .dsp, nmake files, and all the
> rest can even be generated on unix
> (still, a dos-style .zip thrown up on /dist/apr/), this would
> all be goodness.

Yup.


Sander