Telling response on why these systems don’t evolve to be more user friendly from “Gavin Smith”: It could be made easier to get started with automake. For examp

Telling response on why these systems don’t evolve to be more user friendly from “Gavin Smith”: It could be made easier to get started with automake. For example, "AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=foreign" should be the default; otherwise automake refuses to finish if required files aren't found in the project. There's a political problem here to persuade people of this. The documentation could also be improved. I remember somebody was complaining about this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Program-and-Library-Variables.html https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Progr... and asking what "maude" meant - it turned out it was the name of the dog or something of the person who first wrote the program, who didn't want it to change. So think getting consensus is impossible for changes that are needed to make the program simpler, easier and better. There's a vacuum of responsibility where nobody wants to step on others' feet. Forking the project would go nowhere as nobody would use the fork.