[Geany-devel] Dropping Waf support?

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 16.07.2012 19:36, schrieb Enrico Tröger:
> Hey all,
> 
> this topic has been brought up already a couple of times, for example on
> [1].
> 
> What do you think about dropping Waf support in Geany and in the
> Geany-Plugins project?
> 
> While I was defending Waf in Geany, I somewhat changed my mind. Not
> because I don't like it anymore, but I increasingly see the efforts in
> maintaining two (to be exactly three for Geany) build systems is too
> much. Since the make/MSYS build system support seems to get better and
> better due to Nick's and Dimitar's work on it, I thought about dropping
> the Waf support. It seems nobody knows it well enough and probably
> except for a few users nobody is using it.
> (And obviously I don't do so much anymore and also lost a bit interest
> in maintaining forever.)
> 
> The other thing is that Waf causes often problems for distro packages,
> especially for the Debian folks [2].
> 
> So, I'd go the easy way in this case and just remove Waf. Then we only
> need to maintain the autotools based build system for non-Windows
> systems and the make based for Windows.
> 
> For Geany-Plugins, we would need to get something working on Windows but
> maybe we could re-use Geany's make based system for Windows here.
>
> What do you guys think?

As long as I don't need to maintain autotools I'm fine with every
solution I just never understood how it really works even I tried a
couple of times. ;)
However: One good maintained system is better than 2 doing different things.

Cheers,
Frank