Dave Sill writes:
> "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Does "his" way support VPATH builds? Cross-compiling? Build-roots?
>
> Sometimes "better" doesn't mean "has more features". Sometimes it
And sometimes it does.
> means smaller, simpler, more reliable. Hmm, sounds like qmail.
>
> Then there's the question of "better for whom?" For the developer? For
> the user? For the autoconf fan? In this case, the answer is "the
> developer".
Also the system administrator, the package maintainer, the software archive
distributor, etc...
> Dan has to support the qmail portability stuff. If he'd
> rather use a home grown method than autoconf, there's little incentive
> for him to use autoconf.
Autoconf+automake is far more portable than Qmail. I estimate that every
time I roll together a new package, autoconf+automake saves me about 8-16
hours of work.
--
Sam
