Re: converting netkit to autoconf?

[Dan Kegel]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > It's a shame autoconf's configure scripts are so gross.  If they were
> > more human-friendly, maybe more programmers would be willing to use it.
> >
> > Maybe once Posix mandates Python :-)
>
> Since autoconf avoids shell functions because Bourne shells did not
> support it 20 years ago, why do you think this would make a difference?
> ;-)

Y'know, gdb and gcc regularly mark architectures as 'obsolete', then
remove support for them in the next release.
I wonder if something similar could be done for autoconf.

- Dan