Re: [Chicken-hackers] CMake vs. Autoconf

[John Cowan]

Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:

> This is getting way too confusing.  In fact, while in the shower, I 
> decided it's time to edit all the READMEs to reflect one consistent 
> message.  And all the wiki pages, and also have little blurbs every time 
> someone runs ./configure.  

Excellent.

> - CMake is the canonical method by which Chicken DISTRIBUTIONS are 
> created.  If you want to modify the canonical distro, you have to work 
> with CMake.

*Source* distributions, that is.  Binary distributions can still be
built either way, unless they are based on MSVC.

> Not looking for people to run off in the Autoconf-only direction
> anymore.

Amen.

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