Should we continue maintaining the manual Makefiles?

[milancurcic]

With stdlib now being also an fpm package, as well as CMake support, should we continue maintaining the manual Makefiles?

I argued for manual Makefiles early on (before fpm) due to the possible absence of CMake or a sufficient version of CMake on many systems. However, the cost of maintaining manual Makefiles is quite high relative to the fpm or CMake build. For example, adding a new module and tests requires editing multiple Makefiles in the source tree. And it gets messier when trying to merge some older PRs, as the manual Makefiles would often be in conflict with the target branch.

We could run a poll on Discourse and see what users there think. I think this may be a good time to remove manual Makefile support. What do you think?

[awvwgk]

I'm 100% for dropping those, so far they have only been a maintenance burden and a constant source for build errors.

[jvdp1]

I also agree on dropping the Makefile. Le ven. 17 sept. 2021 à 16:00, Sebastian Ehlert ***@***.***> a écrit :

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[milancurcic]

Discourse poll here.

[certik]

Now when fpm supports stdlib, I am fine dropping them.

I don't have time right now, but I really want to provide cmake and make backends for fpm. That way we only have to make sure things build using fpm in stdlib, and fpm takes care of cmake and make and we can also add meson, etc.

[14NGiestas]

Keeping a makefile for a project like this is kinda annoying because of the non-trivial dependencies and it tends to get outdated. I usually don't like cmake much because I always forget the -DMAXRANK... thing... err... well I forgot again but it works well enough and isn't so complicated adding new files to it.
Also with fpm I just run the ./ci/fpm_deployment.sh, cd stdlib-fpm, and I can review a patch easily, build it, create a quick app/main.f90 to play around.