On 17 August 2012 05:17, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/16/2012 02:04 PM, Javier Jardón wrote: > > A bit of research shows that you got some facts mixed up. > gnome-autogen.sh was created (as autogen.sh) in 2000: > while autoreconf has existed since 1994: Oh sorry about this I didnt know the details about the creation of gnome-autogen (I relatively new to the GNOME project). I wonder why it was created then ... Anyway > If you are willing to write patches to autoreconf to incorporate new > tools into the common autotools, then we will gladly review them. But I > probably won't write those patches. GNOME isn't the only project to > have an initial checkout script that wraps not only autoreconf but > several other tools; gnulib is a primary example of this, where many > gnulib clients (such as GNU coreutils) don't directly use autoreconf. > Note that many packages name their initial script 'bootstrap' rather > than a variant of 'autogen', so as to avoid confusion with the actual > 'AutoGen' package. Excellent! O do not speak perl myself, but Ill try to find someone or maybe learn some perl is not a bad idea ;) Regards _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
