From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC59CB7.1080201@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC5778D.2080902@redhat.com>
On 11/17/2011 4:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> It always makes me
> cringe to see other projects that just don't get that fact, suffering
> through the problems already solved by autotools.
To borrow from Santayana, those who don't understand cross-platform
portability are doomed to reinvent the autotools...badly.
Granted, everybody agrees that the autotools could be improved -- but
getting any replacement system up to the level of capability already
exhibited by the auto*...and attracting a user/developer base to
use/reportbugs/fixbugs/addcapability before you've reached that point?
Not happening.
--
Chuck
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2011-11-17 20:51 ` Dave Korn
2011-11-17 21:07 ` Eric Blake
2011-11-17 21:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-17 22:34 ` JonY
2011-11-17 23:46 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
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