[Gs-devel] Re: autotools for building Ghostscript

[Ralph Giles]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 01:11:13 -0800 "L. Peter Deutsch" wrote:

> The bottom line, as far as I'm concerned, is that automake is a tool
> designed to make life easier for people who are maintaining programs in the
> circumscribed GNU universe, by encapsulating many of the assumptions,
> requirements, and conventions of that universe.  It does not seem to care
> about being particularly useful to anyone who wants to make any of their own
> decisions about how to structure directories, makefiles, development
> processes, configuration management, etc. in a way that might not match the
> GNU conventions.

Strongly worded, but thanks for writing back. I was worried after Raph
made an executive decision we wouldn't get any more of your comments on
this issue.

 -r

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