[argyllcms] Re: Future of jam build system for argyllcms

  • From: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:38:12 +0200

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:32:16AM +1100, Graeme Gill wrote:
> Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:
> 
> > Roland also mentioned that there were some plans/ideas to switch to other
> > build system (possibly not autotools). Is it still considered?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> No, sorry, I'm very happy with Jam, as it works very much as I want
> a build system to work, and is very suitable as a cross platform build
> system. If someone wants to maintain a parallel build system, then
> I'm not going to stop them, but nor am I going to use it or maintain it.

Thanks. Fair enough.

> 
> > So could anybody explain how argyll will look in future? If it's still
> > undecided, I'll probably try to update autotools files for 1.3.5 release.
> 
> I don't expect any major changes in the near future (12 months or more),
> just bug fixes, minor feature additions and (as they arise), new instrument
> support. It's possible I may switch usb access libraries some time in the
> future, since I'm not happy with the direction that libusb is heading,
> but when or if that will happen is uncertain.

thanks again.

-- 
WBR, Dmitry

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