On 3/23/20 1:20 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Autotools and C still have their niche, and that niche is code that _does_ need to be extremely cross platform.
If cross-platform is the main goal, Java is often a better choice these days. :-)It would be fine to add an option (default off) to make Autoconf pickier about the shell, and letting people try the option who want to try it. We coould change the default later as experience rolls in.
