On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:41:26PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > Now, the biggest problem of lyx, to my understanding, is the > portability. Building lyx on windows or cygwin has been a pain (my own > experience), and this will certainly deter potential contributors and > users. As lyx grows bigger (e.g. +qt4) and needs better support on > more platforms (win/cygwin/*nix/mac), auto* is (obviously to me) a > deterring force, not a helping one.
That's an interesting point because LyX is quite portable right now exactly due to the use of autoconf. Getting things to compile on old *nixes is not exactly simple and I you should not be surprised if you get a bumpy ride with alternatives to auto*, too. I sort of depise the autotools, too, but the replacement should not be worse. Andre'
