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Re: Problems with updating nearly any package meant for Cygwin or using packages such as libtool


On 11/17/2011 4:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
It always makes me
cringe to see other projects that just don't get that fact, suffering
through the problems already solved by autotools.

To borrow from Santayana, those who don't understand cross-platform portability are doomed to reinvent the autotools...badly.


Granted, everybody agrees that the autotools could be improved -- but getting any replacement system up to the level of capability already exhibited by the auto*...and attracting a user/developer base to use/reportbugs/fixbugs/addcapability before you've reached that point? Not happening.

--
Chuck


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