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| DATE | 2021-01-20 |
| FROM | Nate Bargmann
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Future plans for Autotools
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Thanks for your effort over this past year, Zack. As a user of
Autoconf, your work, as is that of all contributors, is much
appreciated.
One strength of the Autotools that I think stands above the rest is the
fact that a user of a distributed package does not need to install any
of the Autotools packages. On the odd occasion I build a cmake or qmake
based project locally I always need to install those build bootstrap
systems. This, I think, was a stroke of genius from the start on the
part of Autoconf. I think this should always be a primary goal of the
project.
Another concern I think any project maintainer that uses the Autotools
has is compatibility between versions. The configure.ac files that I
maintain generally require a rather old version of Autoconf and work
well, at least though 2.69. I'm not aware of glaring bugs that affect
us. A reworked Autoconf that leaves behind m4 would be welcome so long
as a present configure.ac file could be left in place to be used when an
older Autoconf version is installed on older systems. This would likely
require a new default name for an incompatible version of Autoconf,
though this might cause issues with Automake and Libtool.
Thanks for taking an active interest in this project.
- Nate
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