Akim Demaille wrote: > > | Akim, > | > | Shall I commit this? :-) -- Bruce
> I am not in favor of this. I don't want to augment the confusion and > giving the idea that AutoGen is bound to Autoconf in any way. I don't > want people to believe writing macros is hard. So frankly, I don't > want that. > > But, there are other maintainers of Autoconf. If they agree, then > I'll shut up. If writing macros were easy, the novices would do it. They dont. They don't because it is intimidating. "not hard" does not imply "not intimidating". Hence, the ac-archive sites. But, besides, there are the quoting "gotchas" that really do bite and are not obvious to the casual macro copiest.
