On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 08:55:26PM -0800, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > is it possible to have edbrowse check at run time
> > whether it has the correct and latest tidy, and issue a warning message if it does not?
> 
> Here's the problem.
> The old tidy code defined tidyReleaseDate.
> tidy-html5 defines tidyLibraryVersion and tidyReleaseDate, but they
> claim that tidyReleaseDate is deprecated.  So I don't know how long that
> will be available.
> For now, tidy-html5 is a drop-in replacement for the original tidy, so I
> suppose I could look at tidyReleaseDate to determine whether we're using
> old tidy code.
> A better solution would be to check at build time.
> That's quite doable with cmake, and I'm starting to get a handle on how
> to use it, so maybe that's the way to go.

Definitely, otherwise we leave ourselves open to all sorts of strangeness in the future.

> That begs a question.  At some point, should we consider deprecating all
> of our makefiles?

I was actually planning to send an email asking this,
particularly as I've now been successfully building with cmake on a bunch of
Debian machines. On the subject of cmake,
is there any chance we could add an install (and even uninstall)
rule just to make everything a bit more standard and in case we ever need to
compile parts of the code as shared objects?

Cheers,
Adam.