On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:16:04PM +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> > autoconf automake libtool
>
> MVS, MacOS, cross-compilation.
True, but ... .
While imperfect and Unix-centric, we can (and should!) learn a lot
from auto{conf,make} and metaconfig. They have a lot of good ideas and an
awful lot of configuration history and expertise.
One other thing that nearly all such previous auto-configuration systems
have in common is that nearly every developer of such a system vastly
underestimated the scale and complexity of the task to be undertaken.
Caveat Configurator :-).
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
