[rescue] Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever? WAS:::Re: What to do with the SS20

[Richard]

In article <20140625142322.GA1023 at galah.local>,
    PAK <pakenned-list at pobox.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 04:42:39PM -0600, Richard wrote:
> > In article <20140624220805.GA46307 at galah.local>,
> >     PAK <pakenned-list at pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Here's the joy of git--sometimes the effort needed to get something to
> > > compile is simply "./configure && make && make install", [...]
> > 
> > ...which, by the way, is *not* portable.
> 
> I don't know whether you've missed my point, or just trying poke fun :)
> I feel that you're somewhat deliberately truncating my argument.

No, I'm making a specific response to a specific statement and
therefore discarded all the other stuff on which I'm not commenting.

Since when has appropriate trimming been a source of confusion?

"configure" scripts and autotools are basically a unix only solution.

CMake overcomes that because CMake assumes only a C/C++ compiler in
your environment and nothing else.  (And you need a C/C++ compiler to
build the CMake-based project from source anyway, so it's imposing no
additional dependencies.)
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