Re: removing support for the hand-edited unix makefiles

Stefan Kemper writes:
 > Sorry I don't see how to build and test the gslib with autoconf.  If you
 > maintain the ability to build a libary and test it with gslib.c then we
 > won't have great difficulties when the next major gs release comes out.
 > 
 > I was under the impression that testing gslib was part of the regression
 > suite, could be wrong but it would be nice for it to be so.
 > 
 > -Stefan
 > 

I was hoping we would move away from autoconf, realizing we don't need
2 configuration sytems that work together awkwardly.  Sans
unix-gcc.mak this will still be the case.  Aside from autoconf being
cryptic m4 nonsense (we have enough macros to deal with) it can't be
used by Windows users who comprise a large percentage of Artifex
customers and staff.  Further autoconf has come under fire in the free
software community.

With pcl maintaining builds for gcc and msvc with an even split of
customers we'll maintain the old makefiles.  Configuration issues are
not really a problem for us.

-- 
./Henry
Artifex Software