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To: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
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Subject: Re: to imake or not to imake 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Feb 92 15:26:59 EST."
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 14:52:05 -0600
From: schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu
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| I don't want to start any religious wars, but imake -once set up correctly-
| usually shortens installation procedures to "imkmf; make install", especially
| if the sources are as portable as rc is.

But setting up imake is much harder than just setting up rc.  And it is
different for every package!  One directory full of imake config files
for InterViews, one for X11, one for Modula-3, etc, etc, etc.  And even
when you have all that stuff straightened out, you gain nothing over
what we have now:  editing a Makefile to comment out a couple of
defines verses editing an Imakefile to comment out a couple of
defines... where's the win?  Keep simple things simple, please!