Re: the autotools workshop (was: Re: things to do at fri 2004-05-28 meeting ...)

[stap@xxxxxx (Jan Stap)]

Hi Joost,

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:14:21PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> Hoi Jan,
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 03:52:43PM +0200, Jan Stap wrote:
> > 
> > Sounds we have more than enough for one evening. 99% chance I'll be
> > there (lot on my hands lately). In that case, I'll be a happy volunteer
> > for autoconfiscation of some software project (e.g. an ogg/mp3 CD label 
> > generator (Perl + gd grafics lib), or an image viewer in Javascript).
> > Or a script keeping web sites up to date from a set of CVS modules.
> 
> Cool.  Can I fetch the code of these projects from some website?  Any of
> the projects will do, I guess.
 
Not yet, but I'll put it on.

> > Joost, I assume you have a screen & keyboard for the workshop?
> > (I should buy a laptop one of these days).
> 
> I will bring my old laptop.  If somebody is willing to share a car, I
> can bring an old PC too.
 
Nice.

> For those who don't know what this autoconfiscation is all about: Eric S
> Raymond has something to say about it in 'The Art of Unix Programming':
> see http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch15s04.html#id2987644 and
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch17s05.html#id3000984 .
> 
> People interested in the Autotools workshop might want to install on
> their Unix(-like) system:
> 
>  Autobook ( http://mdcc.cx/autobook/ )
>  Gnu Automake (a recent one, including its documentation)
>  Gnu Autoconf (including its documentation)
>  Gnu Libtool
> 
>  Optionally: autoconf-archive ( http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/ )
> 
> Further optional reading: GNU coding standards (
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html ).
 
Thanks for the refs; I'll go over them upfront.

> Jan: if you can't make it, please let me know in advance.  A volunteer
> with a to-be-autoconfiscated project is needed for the workshop.
 
I'll do so, but I'm fairly shure I'll be there.

Cheers,

Jan


> Bye,
> 
> Joost
>