On Jun 14, 2011, at 13:37 , Richard Hipp wrote:
>> What about Python dependency? Is it acceptable?
>
> Python is on my iMac and my Linux desktop. But it is not installed on the
> OpenBSD 4.7 system that I use for testing. Perhaps in a few more years
> Python will have become sufficiently universal to be useful for this, but it
> is not there yet. So, no, python is not yet an acceptable dependency given
> that autoconf has already demonstrated that a Bourne shell is all you really
> need.
But on the other hand, Python is easier to get on Windows than Bourne shell...
Still with this kind of requirements ("should work on *bsd on a toaster") it's
probably best to stick with autotools, no matter how much pain is that :/
Kind regards,
Remigiusz Modrzejewski
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