Re: gnustep-make experiment

[Adam Fedor]

On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> Have we even tried, experimentally, doing this refactoring to see  
> if it
> actually would make things simpler?   The best way to prove a point is
> code.  I would like to see if it can be done.
>
> While I understand it's not *strictly* needed for FHS  
> compliance..... it is something that many developers, outside of  
> GNUstep, use on a daily basis.
>
> If someone can produce a patch which would simplify gnustep-make  
> that uses pkg-config, I really don't see a reason not to consider  
> including it.

I don't really see the point of this.  It might be nice to support  
pkg-config for those who want it, but pkg-config doesn't even come  
close to supporting the requirements of GNUstep development. First,  
pkg-config is only for developers.  Maybe it would be useful for  
writting a few tools and such using GNUstep, but for anything more  
complicated?  Why would a developer want to used all the advanced  
capabilities of the GNUstep envirnoment AND want to write all their  
Makefiles from scratch using pkg-config? Seems counter-productive.

As Nicola said, it doesn't even simply things, either.