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

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Charles Cazabon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of rants...I haven't found the djb autoconf/autotool rant,
>> either.
>
> It's not a rant, but he posted this to the qmail list in August 1999:
>
>  > Also note that Dan is reinventing parts of autoconf in his build process;
>
>  Well, actually, autoconf is reinventing ideas that were popularized by
>  the sysconf tool in my yabbawhap package in comp.sources.unix in early
>  1991. But don't allow the historical facts to cloud your judgment. :-)
>
>    --D. J. Bernstein
>
> djb's build system predates autoconf.  The fact that it's far simpler to use
> is merely an added bonus.

Hopefully, he'll get around to releasing redo at some point.  It would
make maintaining his packages easier.