----- "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