On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Nikolaos, > > To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Subject: m4p: an implementation of GNU m4 in Python > > An impressive project, but I think you should tell [email protected], not > [email protected]. Although there are Autoconf macros and a little other > m4 stuff in Automake, it's minor compared to Autoconf.
Hi Karl, Thank you, I posted a message there. > I'm worried about: > > All I can say is that autoconf surely probes the limits of m4 behavior > in every regard. So any incompatibility whatsoever is likely to be a > problem. --happy hacking, karl. I plan on byte-for-byte compatibility with GNU m4 1.4.19. It seems to work that way for now, but I'd like any bug reports. I also plan to try it more extensively myself with autotools projects soon, but I figured that I'd release it as soon as possible. Regards, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou
