On 2020-12-20 13:37 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 12/20/20 12:25 PM, Wookey wrote: > > We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design > > only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often. > > Yes, the design assumes that Autoconf etc. are maintained well, which > (except for Zack's efforts) has not been the case for a while. This part of > the GNU ecosystem needs more help, as the rare volunteers are spread way too > thin. Just to clarify here: I was talking about software projects that _use_ autotools being very infrequently updated, not autotools itself. Even if autotools was being updated assiduously that doesn't change a tarball last released 10 years ago, still being built in a modern distro. Nor projects that do new releases but don't reautoconf themselves and just cargo cult the autofoo they had working from last time, which I have also seen way too much of. I realise that my comment could in fact be read either way - apologies for lack of clarity. No criticism was implied of the people keeping autotools itself going. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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