Re: [fetchmail-devel] 6.3.0 is out - draft announcement

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Nico Golde <ni...@ng...> writes:

> * Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> [2005-12-05 19:23]:
> [...] 
>> Changes between Fetchmail 6.2.5 and 6.3.0:
>> The --netsec/-T options were removed. The --smtphost is 
>> now always "localhost". fetchmail now uses automake. 
>
> Do you really think the autohell is an improvement?

automake surely is, it gives users and packagers a pretty well-known
default set of targets and overrides (DESTDIR, prefix, mandir and
whatnot), handles conditionals without scratching your ear with your
toes.

I'm a bit more critical about autoconf since it's plain bloatware rather
than using shell functions, but fetchmail has been using this for a long
time (if not from the first day).

auto* "hell" as you call it will certainly not go away before 7.0.0. If
a good and leaner build system has stabilized by then, we might go for it.

-- 
Matthias Andree