Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-22 Thread Nick Bowler
As always, thanks for all your effort Zack! I wanted to share some of my thoughts on Autoconf and friends. Maybe I wrote too much. For me the most important requirement of the GNU build system is that it must be as straightforward as possible for novice users to build free software packages from

Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-22 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 1/22/21 2:48 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: I don't have enough experience with Meson to say. Mainstream free software packages have only very recently started using it. On the GNU side, glib-2.60 (ca. 2019) converted to meson and I am able to build it. If possible, I will have to try again in 2039