Re: [bug #50382] Add CMAKE and NUGET support for Windows

[Jeremy Theler]

Isn't autotools mandatory for GNU projects?

On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 10:31 -0700, Mark Galassi wrote:
> > I, too, think that the autotools should be replaced with a more
> > user-friendly,
> > contemporary alternative. CMake is definitely a good choice.
> > Alternatively, Meson (
> > https://mesonbuild.com/
> > ) [...]
> 
> cmake compounds the problems in automake and in the long run might be
> even worse.  meson is quite sweet - a small paradigm shift, and my
> efforts at porting significant packages have worked out well.
> 
> PS: when people diss autotools -- and I am the first one to do so --
> they should remember that it performs remarkably well in one area:
> longevity.  I am able to build projects from the 1990s with virtually
> no changes thanks to autotools's stability.  Still, I am starting to
> migrate things to meson.
> 
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