On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 6:24 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
"Autotools has reached the Chandrasekhar mass limit of software and
become a black hole of suck that consumes endless hours of bright
peoples’ time without any good result. It is well past time for it to
die." (c) "Autotools must die", ESR. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1877

I couldn't sum up this better. It looks even worse from Windows machine.

Is it even used for building Python on Windows (for the "normal" python.org builds)?

But to miss-paraphrase Winston Churchill [1]:

"Autotools is the worst build system except for all the others."

Is there really something better out there?

-CHB

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/267224-democracy-is-the-worst-form-of-government-except-for-all

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