Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: archfs - filesystem for rdiff-backup archives

["Filip Gruszczyński" <gruszczy@gmail.com>]

> Er it's been pointed out to me that this is a Google SoC project, so
> apologies for the beginners info. (I'd forgotten your earlier post.)

Oh, no problem, I am a beginner after all :-) And I always forget to
add project's homepage
to the message :-/

> BTW I don't recommend autotools (there's a reason they're called autohell ;)

Yeah, now I know that myself ;-)

> especially if you're not writing from scratch. (That's why you get all
> those redundant configure checks..) A simple system.mk which gets included
> in the makefile is a lot easier for everyone. ion3 (which is now in mabi's
> overlay iirc) does this, and it's a doddle to configure. (I think it was
> one or two sed calls.)

Well, you are third person, that is telling me that (though you all
differ with alternative tools - from CMake, to pkg-config, to what you
are suggesting now). If only I knew it, when I was getting down to it.
Unfortunately, my lack of experience doesn't make this project any
easier, it's my first 3 months, that I'm doing anything like this.
However, for the time being I will stick to what I could create with
those autotools - I get shivers, when I imagine, that I have to learn
something like this again ;-)

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Filip Gruszczyński