On 5/3/22 16:35, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2022, at 2:30 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 5/1/22 19:06, Alex Ameen wrote:
>>> Whoever is most
>>> actively working on M4sh would be an incredibly useful contact for me, so
>>> if "that's you" let me know.
>>
>> To be honest right now I think "
On Wed, 2022-05-04 at 06:00 -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
>
> Honestly, I feel like the autotools are dying.
>
They're feature-complete, up to support for some newer languages.
> If I use Meson or CMake, I get solutions to all of these problems,
> except perhaps IDE integration. And that i
On 5/3/22 16:35, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2022, at 2:30 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 5/1/22 19:06, Alex Ameen wrote:
>>> Whoever is most actively working on M4sh would be an incredibly
>>> useful contact for me, so if "that's you" let me know.
>>
>> To be honest right now I think "tha
On 5/4/22 06:00, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> On 5/3/22 16:35, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2022, at 2:30 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> On 5/1/22 19:06, Alex Ameen wrote:
Whoever is most actively working on M4sh would be an incredibly
useful contact for me, so if "that's you" let me
* On 2022 04 May 07:09 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> The trade-off you get for writing m4 is that the build system produced
> by autotools doesn't require you to have autotools installed, and
> instead uses only a portable subset of standard system tools. As a
> result, end users can never encou
On 5/4/22 05:07, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
The trade-off you get for writing m4 is that the build system produced
by autotools doesn't require you to have autotools installed, and
instead uses only a portable subset of standard system tools.
I think this is a very minor benefit:
(1) To build a pr
On Wed, 2022-05-04 at 08:17 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 5/4/22 05:07, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > The trade-off you get for writing m4 is that the build system produced
> > by autotools doesn't require you to have autotools installed, and
> > instead uses only a portable subset of standard syste
