On Monday 01 December 2008 07:33:08 pm Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Jens Petersen wrote:
> ----- "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
>> * start discouraging shipping pregenerated files, instead make sure that
>> autoreconf actually works (which mainly amounts to the above point about
>> backwards compatibility).
>> But unfortunately, this won't solve the problem of the reliance on the
>> shell, and as configure.ac scripts can contain arbitrary shell snippets,
>> this can't really be fixed without a major redesign, the result of which
>> would effectively no longer be autotools.
>
> I would add:
>
> * do not start new projects using autotools as far as possible
Maybe you can offer an alternative? And no, I don't mean reciting names of
some hacks some cool kids may have put together for their birthday... And
not something that requires me to install it first before I can build this
tarball I downloaded.
behdad
Oh, and I suggest trying to get everyone to distribute their software such
that users need not install anything to build the tarball -- they should ship
gcc with the tarball under that logic.
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Conrad Meyer <konrad(a)tylerc.org>