Plans for 3.0.0

[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:40, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Daniel Atallah
> <daniel.atallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 19:26, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
>>> I have created im.pidgin.pidgin.next.major in monotone.  Let the mergefest begin!
>>
>> Is anyone opposed to also merging im.pidgin.pidgin.win32.autotools?
>
> I'm not opposed to it.  I only glanced through the changes just now
> and they look reasonable.  Did I hear someone say that we would still
> want to keep the Makefile.mingw files around?  It seems silly to have
> two ways to build on Windows... isn't that just adding more work for
> ourselves?  If autotools works on Windows, why would we keep
> Makefile.mingws?  If autotools isn't sufficient for all purposes, why
> would we bother doing extra work to get it to work on Windows?

It definitely seems like a good idea to have only one way to build on Windows.

The problem is that the autotools stuff is kind of difficult to set
up, that's why I was planning to keep the static Makefiles around tool

-D