On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:22:56AM +0100, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > requiring automake is not something I personally would be excited about... > > I'd > > like to see how bad a conversion to ordinary sh would turn out.. also, 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 ;) > > > > Remember that the primary focus of a build system is not ease > of maintenance or being written in your preferred scripting > language. > > No - the primary focus is being portable. That is why you > don't see build systems written in Perl, PHP or Python.
The subject is whether Python can be required for running buildconf, not for running configure && make. I don't see a problem requiring Python for buildconf. joe
