[patch #8195] Add AX_PROG_SCALAC

[Rhys Ulerich]

Follow-up Comment #4, patch #8195 (project autoconf-archive):

Sorry for the slow response.

> What is required before it is considered support? 

To be honest, I don't know.  I do know the Erlang community went gungho
several years back to get Erlang support in (see, e.g.,
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Erlang-Compiler-and-Interpreter).

> What are the requirements for something to go into mainline autoconf?

Similarly no idea.

This is totally unfamiliar stuff to me.  I was noticing that you'd spent some
time on all-things-Scala and wondered if a concerted effort at getting Scala
support into Autoconf might be a better investment of time instead of getting
it into the Macro archive.

> Please note that the Scala support uses the Java support in the autoconf
archive.

I suspect that this is a deal breaker on pushing things towards Autoconf if
managing a Scala build/runtime environment depends on Java build/runtime that
Autoconf currently lacks.

Anyhow, sorry to throw a wrench in things.  Thanks for the contributions.

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