Re: Autom4te::General

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

 Akim> It should be possible to merge it again with its Automake peer?

I think it would be hard in the present state, because this file
carries too many unrelated things, some of them conflicting with
Automake's architecture.  

Right now I'd like to update the Automake copy to use
Channels.pm.  I think this is the most important issue.  Since
my recent playing with Autoconf's handling of $? and $!, I'm
convinced that relying on `die' or other `Carp' friend to output
diagnostics is plain wrong.  The only sane way to display an
error is 'print STDERR' + `exit'.  This is what Channels.pm
does.  Doing this allows not to mess with $? and $! at all.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz