Given that progress is likely to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, what kind of system or environment do you see that has potential to wean people from autoconf with as minimal hassle as possible?
several times in the past i have been in a situation where i have booted an old plan9 cd with missing incorrect binaries. in those cases i have always resorted to mounting the latest set off sources and either compiling them or (more often) just running the binaries off the Bell-Labs servers. perhaps the future _could_ be just providing an interface to the required build libraries to those who dislike downloading binaries :) perhaps i'm naive, but i've been spoiled with p9 :)
