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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon,  8 May 2006 17:02:06 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive
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evolution guarantees change.  it doesn't guarantee /good/ change.
in software, i perfer intelligent design the dodo bird.

- erik

On Mon May  8 16:11:22 CDT 2006, knapjack@gmail.com wrote:
> On 5/8/06, LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > seems. So for the half
> > our conformity test/configuration, it still wouldn't actually tell me what
> > was really missing, which was
> > fun because it kept passing the thread test sections...
> 
> So, it sounds like autoconf may function as intended but perhaps the
> person who wrote the test needs some help?
> 
> Given that progress is likely to be evolutionary rather than
> revolutionary, what kind of system or environment do you see that has
> potential to wean people from autoconf with as minimal hassle as
> possible?  If I'm engrossed in autoconf hell for whatever reason --
> say I'm the Firefox build maintainer, for instance -- what does the
> path out look like?
> 
> -Jack
>