[geos-devel] RFC7: Discontinue use of autotools

[Regina Obe]

I'm fine with having only cmake if the issue Paul raised below is fixed.
That is what I currently use for building.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Friday, January 8, 2021 12:30 PM
> To: GEOS Development List <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] RFC7: Discontinue use of autotools
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jan 8, 2021, at 9:25 AM, Daniel Baston <dbaston at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think the question we need to resolve is whether, after 11 years of
> working with and 5 years of officially supporting two build systems, we
need
> to continue to spend developer effort maintaining both systems in order to
> accommodate those preferences.
> 
> I agree. I can think of only one further technical task, which is ensuring
that
> the outputs of the cmake 'make dist' target are run through to 'make
check'
> in CI. Being able to bundle a release via 'make dist' is a very handy
thing and
> makes 'tag to release automatically' a potential CI target which would
also be
> nice.
> 
> P.
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