From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-02-23 22:46:34
on 2/23/00 5:38 PM, Jens Maurer at jmaurer_at_[hidden] wrote:
>> GNU autoconf/automake/libtool cover a pretty broad range of platforms. Not
>> Mac (though I think there's a good deal of hope for OS X support in the
>> future), and Windows support is limited to Cygwin.
FWIW, there is growing dissatisfaction with these tools, and a new effort
<http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com> has been established to replace
them with tools written in Python, a language which is ported to all of the
platforms we're targeting.
-Dave