[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCHv2 1/3] tools/pkg-config: Replace with pkgconf

[Petr Štetiar]

Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> [2019-12-25 12:51:33]:

> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 3:17 AM Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> [2019-11-28 11:19:31]:
> >
> > > pkgconf is a newer, actively maintained implementation of pkg-config
> >
> > I'm wondering if that `actively maintained` part still holds true.
>
> It does. The team has management issues it seems. They've publicly
> stated they want to move away from GitHub:
> https://github.com/pkgconf/pkgconf.github.io/issues/1
> 
> So you would think based on the URL of the download that development
> moved here: https://git.dereferenced.org/pkgconf/pkgconf#
> 
> But there's also a third place where development seems to have moved:
> https://git.sr.ht/~kaniini/pkgconf/log
> 
> Seems it's a mess.

So how to sort this out?

I'm simply in favor of keeping the current pkg-config, because the suggested
replacement doesn't seem like a worth considering yet, but maybe I read it
wrong.

-- ynezz

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