[MPlayer-dev-eng] autoconf

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:39:44PM +0100, Winner of tha face compo wrote:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
> > Autoconf's generated code is used *much* more widely than your
> > hand-written code, and so is more widely tested and less likely to be
> > buggy.
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> We know that feeling when we download a CVS of some stuff, and it
> vomits 65535 pages of missing AC_* and AM_* macros. You want that?
> No, never ever.
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> If MPlayer switches to auto*, I'm leaving the project.

Don't say that -- it might give some developers an incentive to
switch! :))))

Rich