Re: Autoconf/Automake

From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Jun 16, 2006, 06:51 UTC
Message-ID: <dbfc82860606152351t20b73948m646a12e2e478daaa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0606160105100.7480@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 6/16/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> In a project I am stuck in, maven is used. It tries -- of all things -- to
> fix a few shortcomings of ant -- which was supposed to fix shortcomings of
> make! And let's face it. Maven is complicated, slow as a dog lacking all
> four feet, and it still does not do the things I can do in three lines
> with make. It's a complete desaster.

But...it uses XML...how can it not be a panacea?

  nikolai