Re: [AD] Is there a licensing reason why PNG isn't built-in to Allegro?

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 08:24 +0200, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 04:01, Chris wrote:
> > This is part of the reason Allegro's trying to move away from Make, isn't 
> it? 
> > So you can have a build environment that's capable of testing the 
> > availability of things outside of *nix?
> 
> I don't know, is it?
> One thing about scons though is that it's not really sufficiently standard 
> (as in, generally available on pre-installed machines and workstations) to 
> fully replace the normal makefiles. For Windows, this isn't much of an 
> issue (since make is non-standard there anyway), but for *nix systems, it 
> is. At least in my opinion.
> 

Yes, autotools are more available on unix than scons. But if we have
nobody to maintain the m4 (or whatever) scripts, and scons performs
better (e.g. it needs no make depend pass) and will be able to do things
we never can do with autotools (plugin system) - there isn't much
choice.

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Elias Pschernig