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Re: Release next week?
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Release next week? |
Date: |
10 Apr 2001 14:48:39 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
Russ> I hate to say this, but C *is* pretty portable, and you can
Russ> probably assume that all maintainers who use autoconf have a C
Russ> compiler available. I suppose that the sort of string
Russ> manipulation that autoconf wants to do is pretty much a
Russ> non-starter in C?
Really, no, not C. We want a scripting language, we want easy support
for regexp, we want to split lines of text, to pipe, to system, etc.
IMHO, C is not suited for the Autoconf drivers. It's probably what
means your last sentence :)
- Re: Release next week?, (continued)
- Re: Release next week?, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Morten Eriksen, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Eric Siegerman, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Tom Tromey, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Eric Siegerman, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Bob Proulx, 2001/04/10
- Re: Release next week?, Esben Haabendal Soerensen, 2001/04/11