On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:30:22PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: > "Aaron J. Grier" <agr...@poofygoof.com> writes: > > the point of autotools is to lower the barriers to write portable > > software. so why is so much autotools software non-portable? > > Much as autotools suck, they are still better than most alternatives. > Autotools software is non-portable largely because people skim through > the barely-sufficient documentation and fail to use the tools > properly. > > But enough of that; hates-people is elsewhere.
I was asking a rhetorical question... this is hates-software, after all. blaming people for having trouble using autotools effectively is beside the point: I hate autotools for being difficult to use in the first place. that it misleads its users into an illusion of portability is like a hate netting around a big chunk of hate-gras. -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agr...@poofygoof.com
