It is robust and may now be ubiquitous
enough for our needs.
Since automake has always been implemented in Perl, I don't see a
problem there. The gnulib-tool user population is a subset of the
automake user population, to a first approximation, seems to me.
I'd much rather endure Perl's syntax than the arcane portability rules
For what little it's worth, I totally agree.
karl
