Re: [dwm] autoconf

From: Szabolcs Nagy <nszabolcs_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:04:24 +0100

On 3/19/09, Nico Golde <nico_AT_ngolde.de> wrote:
> Please read the FAQ: http://suckless.org/common/faq

hm the 9fans link is dead, and neither 9fans[0] nor google[1] has the
entire thread archived

anyway, the main complaints:
- difficult to use by the user: --parameters
- difficult to use by the developper: m4, inconsistency, strange errors..
- huge, complex, slow, ugly..
- undebuggable huge generated files
- badly maintained, hacked together (see history[2])
- depends on perl and obscure gnu m4 features

[0] http://9fans.net/archive/2003/11
[1] http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=configure+misery+9fans
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/History.html
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