I'd guess that a conversion to the less cool but more widely ported/precompiled/preinstalled P* scripting language would be a rather quick and would not suffer greatly from uncoolness and would pick up additional people able and/or willing to maintain it ;)
If you did that, I bet we'd lose people willing to maintain it. ;-)
And, yes, automake is a dirty word. I want it very, very far away from any projects I work on... -- justin
