Re: canonical autogen.sh?

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven G Johnson <address@hidden> writes:

Steven> I really like the autogen.sh file that comes with most GNOME
Steven> programs, and steal it for many of my own programs.  This sort
Steven> of thing is quite useful for people using tools like automake
Steven> and autoconf.

Steven> Has there been any consideration of putting together a
Steven> "standard" autogen.sh script and including it with automake?

The real work to do is updating autoreconf.  That is the universal
autogen.sh.  People seem to have forgotten this program.

Last year, there was an attempt to make catch up, unfortunately two of
the lead Autoconf developers could not find a consensus on aclocal
replacement.  Since one of the two no longer seem to have spare time
for Autoconf, we might find a solution :) :) :)