[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: proposal for a test harness
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:17:01 +0000
I think unifying the build system using scons might be a posative step, but
having the move to scons as a blocker for
including the harness is not a good idea.
Am I correct in saying that for the time being we have all agreed over the
improved test harness?
Thanks.
Mesar
On Wed 29/02/12,11:28, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I guess it comes back to a question put by Jamie from the NVDA team.
> > Why not use SCons?
>
> Well, let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. The autotools
> build system for liblouis* works quite well and has a lot of benefits.
> Not all of these could be provided by Scons as far as I know. One of the
> perceived down sides of autotools is the poor support for building on
> windows. This is evident in the windows sudirectories which often
> duplicate much of the rest of the Makefiles. However I'm not convinced
> if this is needed at all. Bert from odt2braille seemed to manage to
> build liblouis and liblouisxml on windows quite well.
>
> What I'm saying is that a migration to Scons would have to support all
> of the stuff that the autotools do, i.e. running the test suite,
> building the documentation and the man pages, installation support,
> integration of gnulib, etc.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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