I hadn't answered to this part of Nick's mail before, allow me to do it now ...
On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Nick Bowler wrote: > > > > We must weigh the costs against the benefits. It's currently not clear > > to me what the benefits actually are, to anyone other than automake > > maintainers. > > > > Currently, the benefits to automake maintainers is clear, > > And these, as I've already said, are my main motivation. > > there may be some benefit to package maintainers (hopefully by > > making automake easier to use), > > My hope is to manage, in the *long* run (real long), to turn automake (or more precisely, its purpoted GNU-make-based successor, let's call it "automire") into something *truly* extensible -- I mean, something like autoconf-extensible. This would be a huge win for the package maintainers. > > and there seems to be no benefit to users at all. > Regards, Stefano
