RC1 TODO list for modular tree

Stefan Dirsch sndirsch at suse.de
Sat Sep 24 06:23:41 PDT 2005


On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 01:22:59PM +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Sam, 2005-09-24 at 13:02 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:24:18PM -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> > > Below is a list of the tasks left to do before we can cut RC1 for the
> > > modular tree.  If everyone could help with these tasks, I think we could
> > > finish RC1 for the modular tree in a few days.  Also, if there are other
> > > tasks that we need to complete before RC1, please add them to the list
> > > below.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > 
> > I wonder what has happened to imake. It's mentioned in
> > ModuleComponentList, but up to now util/imake is still empty. :-(
> > There are still many programs which use imake as build system, and I'm
> > afraid that many/most of them will never be converted to autotool
> > (because no longer maintained, but important nevertheless). I remember
> > last time I broke imake about 100 packages failed because of this and
> > SUSE is a small Linux distribution with only about 5000 packages.
> 
> I've created a simple autotooled package of imake if that helps you.
> http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/imake/imake-20050720.tar.bz2

Thanks. Works fine for me. IMHO this should be added to CVS. But what
is still missing are the .cf files required by imake (util/cf is empty
as well).

Best regards,
Stefan

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