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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Reautoconfing |
| Date: | Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:37:04 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 |
On 12/20/20 12:25 PM, Wookey wrote:
We realise that it was/is not the autotools design, but that design only works well when the auto* bits get updated reasonably often.
Yes, the design assumes that Autoconf etc. are maintained well, which (except for Zack's efforts) has not been the case for a while. This part of the GNU ecosystem needs more help, as the rare volunteers are spread way too thin.
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