> requiring automake is not something I personally would be excited about...
> I'd
> like to see how bad a conversion to ordinary sh would turn out.. also, I'd
> guess that a conversion to the less cool but more widely
> ported/precompiled/preinstalled P* scripting language would be a rather quick
> and would not suffer greatly from uncoolness and would pick up additional
> people able and/or willing to maintain it ;)
>
Remember that the primary focus of a build system is not ease
of maintenance or being written in your preferred scripting
language.
No - the primary focus is being portable. That is why you
don't see build systems written in Perl, PHP or Python.
- Sascha
