Re: Future plans for Autotools

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 6 May 2021, Karl Berry wrote:
> (*) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html
> So far the response has been nil.

I don't recall seeing that email.  I did see an email thread regarding 
Autoconf which immediately became a lot of "need to support this soon" 
and "wouldn't it be nice" discussion, totally missing the point of the 
text they were reponding to (i.e. "project is on the gurney and may 
expire without help").

Regardless, "baby bird" syndrome seems to be striking a great many 
established free software projects which are mature and heavily used.

Projects operated by billion dollar companies with teams of developers 
paid to sit in a cubicles and write free sofware seem to be doing 
fine.

Unfortunately, this is not the model for most GNU projects.

Bob
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