On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:08:46AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > ... > 1. 50%+ of free software uses "./configure; make" so new users > should be familiar with it (or are probably using binary packages > anyway); > I have absolutely no problem with an existent "configure" in the tarball. But I dislike distributions without a "configure", needing the autoXXX tools according to the distribution, but using something like some "bootstrap.sh" to build "configure". Ok, sorry, if I hadn't made my point clear enough. Wolfgang