[MPlayer-dev-eng] autoconf

[Paul Jarc]

Winner of tha face compo <gabucino at mplayerhq.hu> 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.
>
> We know that feeling when we download a CVS of some stuff, and it
> vomits 65535 pages of missing AC_* and AM_* macros.

I was talking about the generated shell scripts, not autoconf itself.
Anyway, I'm not going to try to promote autoconf here anymore.


paul