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Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:51:26 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Tom Lord <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 09:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I would expect these forks to be very stable,
> tending mostly to be simplified over time.
I don't expect that. On the contrary, many of the macros recently
added to Autoconf (and even-newer macros stacked up to be added to
Autoconf) are for GNU make, Bash, and other core utilities.
It would be nice to radically improve the autotools -- nobody's really
happy with the current status, after all, we just put up with it
because it's too much work to come up with anything much better -- but
it's not clear that a fork would be a good way to achieve the goal.
Also, the fork is not really the main issue. The main issue is what
to fork _to_. You like GNU Make, others like Perl, still others might
prefer Cook, Guile, etc.
> potentially radical, sweeping work that could benefit all the
> non-bootstrapping packages.
Sounds like fun, but it also sounds like a lot of work. Got anything
particular in mind? Preferably, something that has been implemented
and has a fair amount of use by outsiders already? Autotools users
are a conservative lot, I'm afraid.
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, (continued)
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/21
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/21
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, RĂ¼diger Kuhlmann, 2002/10/21
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Austin Schutz, 2002/10/22
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Richard Stallman, 2002/10/22
- Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/22
Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects,
Paul Eggert <=
Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2002/10/18
Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects, Tom Lord, 2002/10/15