From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Stallman To: bkorb@allegronetworks.com Cc: lauras@softhome.net, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, bkorb@pacbell.net Subject: Re: AutoGen + Guile for fixinc maintenance Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:49:00 -0000 Message-id: <200104200248.UAA14393@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00978.html This means their situation would not change no matter what. All variations of AutoGen require bi-directional pipes to subprocesses. That is not DOS. :-( Please correct me if I am wrong; it appears that the situation is * Converting to AutoGen 5 would make no difference on MSDOS since they can't run either version. * Converting to AutoGen 5 would make little difference on Windows because fixinc is not used on Windows. Given these facts, we should definitely upgrade the script. Even if *maintenance* of AutoGen 4 takes "no work", the need to continue distributing it complicates the overall system and creates various opportunities for confusion.