From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 6 21:25:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60F516A402; Sat, 6 May 2006 21:25:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ca) Received: from orthanc.ca (orthanc.ca [209.89.70.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C85343D48; Sat, 6 May 2006 21:25:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ca) Received: from [192.168.15.2] (d154-5-28-131.bchsia.telus.net [154.5.28.131]) (authenticated bits=0) by orthanc.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k46LPSOD059626; Sat, 6 May 2006 15:25:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ca) In-Reply-To: References: <200605041507.08581.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <200605051346.39823.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060505175533.GA3384@xor.obsecurity.org> <200605051414.02384.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <1146867318.62735.9.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20060505200804.I49507@orthanc.ca> <1146907329.72215.5.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 14:25:26 -0700 To: Matthias Andree X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on orthanc.ca Cc: ports@freebsd.org, pav@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An autoconf bikeshed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 21:25:31 -0000 On May 6, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: > It's not like developers (all my projects like bogofilter, fetchmail, > leafnode use autoconf and automake) were very fond of the bloat that > auto* entails, but it's a standardized way, easy to customize at > configure or install time and porters are rather well-acquainted > with it. God forbid that anyone just write their code to the POSIX standard.