On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:17:19AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I think 2.51 will probably be released soon afterwards. Nonetheless, I
> > would like to introduce deep internal changes: introduce autom4te. I'd
> > like autom4te to be written in Perl, i.e., starting from 2.51, Autoconf
> > will require Perl, and the same Perl as Automake. I don't think this is
> > a hard requirement today as anyway I don't think there are many
> > Autoconf-non-Automake projects today.
>
> One of the parts of my regular day job is compiling free software for all
> the platforms we support. My experience is that the majority, possibly
> the vast majority, of projects that use autoconf do not use automake.
>
> Please note that this is not disagreement with requiring Perl, about which
> I have no particular opinion.
I took his statement to mean that the vast majority of the (small number)
of projects which he was working on were entangled with automake.
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