Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:
> Iff I used your package I would now have to source autoconf to build the
> software as well (and that perennial chestnut, "which version of autoconf?").

How familiar are you with autoconf?  People who only want to build the
package, without modifying it, don't need to have autoconf installed.
autoconf is used by developers to generate the configure script.  The
configure script ships with the package.  Admins use the configure
script to build the package.

It's the same basic idea as with DJB's build system.  His Makefiles
are generated automatically by his "redo" tool.  Admins don't need to
have redo installed just to build and install a package; they would
only need it if they were making some change that required
regenerating the Makefile.


paul