Thursday, 14 July 2011
Fossil adopts autosetup
Recently the Fossil SCM has been adopted by Tcl/Tk as a replacement for CVS. Now the Tcl-based autosetup has been adopted as the development configuration system for Fossil.
Fossil is similar to many open source projects that are required to support a number of different platforms. The obvious approach is to use autoconf and possibly automake, but many people find that approach frustrating.
Some of the immediate benefits of autosetup are support for cross compilation and easily allowing Fossil to be build with different options.