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Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 07:33:08 pm Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Jens Petersen wrote:
> > > ----- "Kevin Kofler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?

How about simply solving the problems the autotools solve and then some?

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