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