Re: How many packages use autotools?

[Grzegorz Jakacki]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:

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> Hello all
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> I am wondering how widespread the use of the autotools is - particularly
> among projects that are *not* GNU or other Free Software, or even "Open
> Source" but not-quite Free.  IOW how many in-house completely locked-up
> proprietary packages use them?

My proprietary commercial project uses it. From my experience Autotools
help keep the build scipts clean. Also you can easily find many examples
of how to implement something with Autotools and such a knowledge base
usually does not exist for a home-grown build system. Autotools also cut
down the training and adaptation time --- would you hire a developer who
cannot build autoconfiscated package?

AFAICT Autotools are not best suited for releasing binary packages, but I
would not say that this is a limitation.

I use Autotools only on *NIX, I would expect that the view is different
when you look through the Windows.

BR
Grzegorz

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> It's probably a bit hard to tell, these packages being uber-secret and
> all.  Any (gu)estimates?
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> bernd
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