Re: [chat] portable scripting

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Jamie Wilkinson:

> This one time, at band camp, Andre Pang wrote:
> >Crikey.  As standard as the autotools are, it's remarkable they work at
> >all considering all of this bizarre whacko behaviour ...
> 
> I (heart) autoblah. ;-)  I can't even remember how to write a normal
> makefile!
> 
> In fact, automake does such cool things (like make dist, make check) that
> even when linux achieves world domination everyone will still be using
> them.  They'll just be a lot simpler.

I kind of wondered about the concept of "we won't need them when we achieve
world domination"... What on Earth would we be using? ANT?

Good lord.

- ii

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