On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 16:59, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/16/2012 3:38 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> >> Plus lots of other references of people saying "no way on automake". >> None of those comments are explained, beyond relying on people's >> personal experience (and hatred) of automake. > > Part of this is that apr evolved naturally from two different masters > who guided its initial functionality and scope... Apache HTTPD and > Subversion. I'm betting you will find far more detailed arguments > and specific experiences with automake on those dev lists. Many very > specific automake - autoconf complaints date to the 1999 effort to > create Apache2-nspr and can be found in pre-ASF archives.
Subversion started with automake. We ripped it out because it was causing way more harm than good. Cheers, -g
