Modularization development notes [was Re: RFA sent to the ArchWG]

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:09:44PM -0700, Kean Johnston wrote:
> > Yes, no GNU Make, no GNU m4. And also no perl in core NetBSD. Please don't
> > require perl for any build.
> 
> I'm with you on the GNU make thing, but m4 will almost certainly
> be a requirement for any developer as the whole aim of the project
> is to autoconfiscate things, and that requires GNU m4. Unless you
> are refering to consumers of the library not the core xorg
> development, in which case I agree.
> 
> Perl is slightly differnt (IMHO). For openers, due to its
> Artistic License, its more ubiquitous than the GNU stuff, and
> it has almost become as much a standard part of any UNIX system
> as, say, awk and sed. If we can avoid it, I'm all for it, but I
> think its absense is *less* of a requirement than the other two.

The talk here was of avoiding this for builds rather than development,
presumably?  For development, we'd require GNU tools in terms of GNU
autoconf and automake to generate the files anyway.
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