Jens Petersen wrote: > ----- "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
