Conrad Meyer wrote:
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
In other words, you'll accept nothing less than an autotools clone, or
autotools itself?
How about simply solving the problems the autotools solve and then some?
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