From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:58:27 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <13426df11003072049h47154430i30ffb529a1d73601@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: e3aa8054-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> Agreed wholeheartedly. =C2=A0Thing is, It's autoconf that needs carefu= l >> redesign: >=20 > I don't see any need for autoconf. As one wise person put it to me, > "things like configure and autoconf just mean you don't know how to > write portable code". >=20 Again, agreed, but reality out there suggests many others are still believers, no matter how misguided. We were discussing making available Open Source ports... > I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a > complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense. It falls over just enough to be attacked. Otherwise, p9p source would have been ported back to Plan 9 in its entirety. It's a shame, really, and with some work it could be fixed, but some of that work is design work. ++L PS: I realise that I'm proposing two nearly orthogonal objectives, sorry that I didn't clarify that sooner.