> Definitely not; this is the most complex conversion I've done to date.
> The previous most complex one was libtiff, which also had a fair amount
> of historical stuff.  Most are trivial in comparison.

Good to know.

> Hopefully I got the question you were asking.  I didn't do this in the
> patch because the intention was not to replace the Autotools.  But I can
> look into this if desired.

Not at the moment, I was just trying to understand the relationship between the 
tools and the implications of having both on the maintenance.

> OK.  I'll look into copying the existing Windows and Libtool semantics
> exactly.  If there's a possibility for aligning them with the next major
> release, we could revisit it then, but I'll revert to the status quo for
> now.

Thx.

> I hope that explains things, but I'm happy to go into more detail for
> any aspects which are unclear.

Thanks, I'll review further while you make the filename adjustments but I think 
if others don't have concerns we can plan for merging it back to trunk.

-- Scott

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