On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Piotr Dobrogost <pd_at_curlpp.org> wrote:
> Michael Wood wrote:
>
>> is so big.  It sort of seems like there is something wrong when your
>> build system is an order of magnitude bigger than the thing you're
>> building.)
>
> I see your point.
> However I wouldn't compare the size of the build system with the size of
> the project being built with it. The former could be very advanced and
> flexible making it rather big in size whereas the latter can be any
> size. The problem is there's no good build system (actually no build
> system at all) _preinstalled_ with the system under Windows. This makes
> installing some build system on this platform necessary. In this case
> the size of it is not so important.

Yes, I was talking about replacing autotools on Linux there. I agree
that you need to install something on Windows, unless you stick with
the nmake makefiles for which support is already there if you're using
the MS toolchain.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot_at_gmail.com>