Status of libtool 2.2.X?

[Braden McDaniel]

Conrad Meyer wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 07:33:08 pm Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Jens Petersen wrote:
>>> ----- "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>>>> * start discouraging shipping pregenerated files, instead make sure that
>>>> autoreconf actually works (which mainly amounts to the above point about
>>>> backwards compatibility).
>>>> But unfortunately, this won't solve the problem of the reliance on the
>>>> shell, and as configure.ac scripts can contain arbitrary shell snippets,
>>>> this can't really be fixed without a major redesign, the result of which
>>>> would effectively no longer be autotools.
>>> I would add:
>>>
>>> * do not start new projects using autotools as far as possible
>> Maybe you can offer an alternative?  And no, I don't mean reciting names of
>> some hacks some cool kids may have put together for their birthday...  And
>> not something that requires me to install it first before I can build this
>> tarball I downloaded.
>>
>> behdad
> 
> In other words, you'll accept nothing less than an autotools clone, or 
> autotools itself?

How about simply solving the problems the autotools solve and then some?

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