On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 03:26:31PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Nikolaos, > > To: <m4-disc...@gnu.org>, <automake@gnu.org> > Subject: m4p: an implementation of GNU m4 in Python > > An impressive project, but I think you should tell autoc...@gnu.org, not > automake@gnu.org. Although there are Autoconf macros and a little other > m4 stuff in Automake, it's minor compared to Autoconf. > > <https://www.owlfolio.org/development/autoconf-swot/> which claims > > It is sad that m4 is not being more actively maintained.
Not extremely active, but not abandoned either. m4 1.4.20 was just released today, and I'm also preparing a 1.5.x beta release of the (still-incomplete) features on branch-1.6 that lead to faster execution when shift($@) is frequent. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Virtualization: qemu.org | libguestfs.org
