Larry Wall wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > > Not using metaconfig (or something like it) would be the biggest > mistake. It's actually next to impossible to maintain something like > a Configure script directly.
Actually as parrot already uses IIUC variables set up by Configure, I think one could drop the "or something like it". The biggest drawback of Configure is that it's UNIX-centric. But it's yet impressively portable and backwards-compatible (ask any Richard Clamp). [Some time ago Raphael Manfredi, bored by the autocrap tools (as he names it) expressed the intent to work on metaconfig again, but then he disappeared again.]
