On Monday 01 December 2008 07:33:08 pm Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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 In other words, you'll accept nothing less than an autotools clone, or autotools itself? -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
