Re: autotools gives autopain

From: Iain * <iaingnome gmail com>
To: fherrera onirica com
Cc: Andy Tai <lichengtai gmail com>, desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: autotools gives autopain
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:37:24 +0000

On 12/17/05, Fernando Herrera <fherrera gmail com> wrote:

>    1) We need to install 5 or 6 different versions of the autotools in
> order to bootstrap GNOME from CVS
>    2) It's very slow. Automake regeneration is slow and configure scripts are.
>    3) It's difficult to maintain

4) Most people don't actually understand what they're doing, they just
copy and paste from another configure.{in|ac} (make your mind up
autoconf) written by someone else who doesn't understand whats going
on.

iain

References:
- autotools gives autopain
  - From: BJörn Lindqvist
- Re: autotools gives autopain
  - From: Andy Tai
- Re: autotools gives autopain
  - From: Fernando Herrera

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