From: Nadav Har'El (nyh@math.technion.ac.il)
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 10:54:56 CET
A while back I wrote on this list:
> * X's "imake" was never a great idea, but more than a decade after GNU's
> autoconf became popular, it's an even worse idea. Especially annoying
> is the lack of the "--prefix" feature, and its "/usr/local" default,
> which has become the common expectation from all package. I hope that
> ctwm one day moves to use autoconf. If work is the only reason why
> we don't move to autoconf, I will volunteer create an autoconf myself.
Little did I know that even the X people got tired of their own imake,
even before I wrote this. Today, I was surprised to see on Fedora Core 5's
test-release notes the following note:
"Imake is no longer used to build the X Window System, and as such is
now officially deprecated. Imake, xmkmf and other utilities previously
supplied by the X Window System, are still supplied in X11R7, however
X.Org highly recommends that people migrate from Imake to using GNU
autotools and pkg-config. imake support may vanish in a future X Window
System release, so developers are strongly encouraged to transition away
from it, and not use it for any new software projects."
This appears to be confirmed in http://x.org, which mentions the new X11R7,
the first new X11 release from x.org in more than a decade (!).
I'm not saying we need to rush and do something about this, but it's something
to consider for the future.
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