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I'm finding myself in the unenviable position of defending autotools. > They were a reflection of the way the kernel, C libraries, APIs and userspace happened
by wyldfire 3y ago
I'm finding myself in the unenviable position of defending autotools.
> They were a reflection of the way the kernel, C libraries, APIs and userspace happened to work. Short of that changing, the results wouldn't change either.
These things do change, especially as toolchain and OS vendors realize their quirks that cause portability friction.
- pas 3y agothere's absolutely nothing wrong with the functionality (it's essential in fact), it's that maybe, maybe, we should purge shell scripts from our hearts. (or at least reserve them for ad-hoc one-off in-situ time-conscious pragmatic programs, instead of letting a billion bash-lines beat its little shell-song behind every .deb,.rpm & etc.) // and of course 'should' is more like "it would be great if someone would rewrite it in Rust"
- wewxjfq 3y agoRemember the serde_derive fiasco? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205647