On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Brent Dax wrote:
> Zach Lipton:
> # Hello everybody
> #
> # I am interested in helping out with configure. I don't know
> # too much about
> # parrot, but I have decent perl skills (I can do what I want
> # to do when I
> # want to do it) and am interested in helping out. What can I
> # do to help?
> # (time to spew the to-do list ;)
>
> Welcome to the team! Right now Configure is pretty stable.
Ah, but we can fix that! :)
Seriously, configure could use:
*) A more abstract makefile.in. "rm -r" is definitely not portable...
*) A start in on probing the environment the way that perl 5's configure
does. Doing this portably (heck, doing it at all) is a non-trivial task,
but a good one.
Dan
