User manual and new build system

[Sebastian Huber]

On 22/11/2019 15:25, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 8:19 AM Sebastian Huber 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I am about to add the documentation of the new build system to the user
>     manual. There is no longer a bootstrap of the sources necessary. Should
>     I remove all information for the bootstrapping from the user manual?
>     Should there be a chapter for the old build system?
> 
> 
> Don't remove the old process until the code is removed. I thought we had 
> agreed to a final autoconf based release. A release with both will help 
> ensure it is functionally equivalent and provide a baseline for comparison.

I would remove the old build system as soon as possible. Shipping a 
release with two build systems makes maintenance more difficult. Getting 
rid of Automake/Autoconf would remove these packages from the RSB build 
for example.

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