an update to automake-1.11?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Jul 8 11:07:56 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Indeed. Here's an idea -- why don't you mass mail the maintainers of all
>> the autotools-using projects you can find on Sourceforge, and be sure to
>> tell them how much autotools suck, and how better CMake is. I'm sure they
>> will appreciate your helpful suggestions.
> 
> Hahaha… Do you have any SERIOUS suggestion on how to bring the deficiencies 
> of the autotools to the attention of upstream maintainers? Of course 
> spamming them won't cut it.

What's wrong with what I suggested? If you truly believe that cmake is so 
much better, I'm sure that everyone would be glad to hear it. Go ahead, 
state your case. I'm the upstream for two packages in Fedora. Make your 
case. You can start with me.

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