[geos-devel] RFC7: Discontinue use of autotools

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:45 PM, Daniel Baston <dbaston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's relevant to the extent that _dropping_ cmake would also resolve
> the "need to do double work" issue, if it wasn't for Windows.
> 
> It doesn't resolve the issue, because we'd need to re-introduce NMake. If you're suggesting that we drop Windows, please make that motion separately.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the majority of the above committers (also)
> use autotools, so the first motivation is not enough.
> 
> I am not using autotools with GEOS but can't speak for others.

cmake exclusively except insofar as release/ci force me to use autotools