[openbeos] Re: BeIDE Projects?!
- From: "Andrew Edward McCall" <mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:46:16 -0800
>
>> I just downloaded the OBOS CVS. It has next to nothing in it (shame
on
>> you!). What it has, and is not the kernel, consists in large part of
>> BeIDE projects (shame on you again!). Please use makefiles. They run
on
>> ppc and x86 and are a standard. Also, you can do batch makes of the
>> project to compile the whole tree.
>
>Wow, a pretty well constructed rant...you make me proud.
>
>> I would suggest an absolute moratorium on BeIDE projects in CVS.
>
>I would suggest scrapping Makefiles completely in favor of an XML
>format. Makefiles are those kind of things that require a small furry
>animal to be sacrificed and lots of voodoo to be done from scratch
>because no one really is left who knows exactly how to make them
>despite the volumes of books that have stacked up on the topic.
>Magical tabs and spacies require late night rituals to get past...
>Let it die. Projects or bust.
I agree with XML.
And I think that this should be decided on soon, I too have two projects
with BeIDE project files building up on my hard disk.
Actually, I don't even know how to commit them!
Thanks
Andrew Edward McCall
mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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