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

Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's been a while, but the last time I danced this dance I had to
> install autoconf to get the project to build a working configure
> (this may have been an issue with the project itself).

Yes, there certainly are projects that do a bad job of using autoconf.
But that's not autoconf's fault.

On the other hand, if you don't have the developer's tools installed
and you need to make a change, editing a DJB Makefile is typically a
heckuva lot easier than editing a configure script.

> I thought his Makefiles were hand generated (albeit djb's hand), and
> redo was future-ware?

redo hasn't been released publicly, but you can see evidence of its
use in the tarball for ezmlm-0.53.


paul