From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ObWdT-00057u-85 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:34:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3538E083C; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82739E083C for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.116] (dynamic-adsl-94-38-245-45.clienti.tiscali.it [94.38.245.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E6BE1B4007; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:34:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C46CD36.2070403@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:34:30 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100708 Lightning/1.0b2pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org CC: Nathan Eloe Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] libbash Weekly Update References: <4C447338.7090401@gmail.com> <4C457BAA.4090708@gentoo.org> <20100720104027.GI6016@gentoo.org> <4C45BABE.4040809@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C45BABE.4040809@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e458911-03b5-49f3-a19f-f457b55e7f33 X-Archives-Hash: 4f8a92c3d5a67f3120417c3e2bdb9e32 On 07/20/2010 05:03 PM, Nathan Eloe wrote: > I'm fine with using autotools. I hadn't made the final decision yet (I > was going to work on the build system tomorrow), so with this > recommendation I will use that instead of cmake. I haven't used either > extensively (I know enough about both to do something very simple with > either), so changing the build system won't throw me off very much. > > Staying with straight C is not something I am as comfortable with. I've > talked with my mentor about it, and we've decided that since the GCC > does allow C++, it's a mature enough language to use. The problem is that it isn't. the gcc move to C++ might straight the things out in the long term. in the middle one I'd be quite wary of the outcome. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero