[analog-help] Re: analog autoconf'ed ?

[Per Jessen]

Dimitri Maziuk wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:59:04 Per Jessen wrote:
>>
>> Dima, should we ever get that far, don't feel obliged to use the
>> autoconf'ed version.
> 
> Heh. I hope you'll be kind enough to give me the choice -- most of
> them are "run ./configure or go lose yourself in twisty maze of little
> shell scripts, all alike".

You'd always have the choice of sticking to version 6.  Of course I'd
hope there would be sufficient new stuff in a later version for you to
be attracted despite autoconf. 

> With autoconf the main cost is well known build failures on 
> non-GNU platforms/with non-GNU build tools (where analog currently
> builds just fine -- last I checked).

If it was up to me, I'd invite maintainers for those platforms to help
out with keeping that side of the build up-to-date.  How many non-GUN
platforms are we talking about?  (besides, AFAIK autoconf does a pretty
good job on e.g. HPUX and Solaris).



/Per Jessen, Zürich