On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> The half unmaintainedness of autoconf (no release in five years counts
> as that imo), sure makes it look like a good idea to move on to cmake or
> such at some point...
I don't necessarily see that as a reason to move. If we're hitting
bugs in autoconf that are causing problems, and we can't get them
fixed in the upstream, that's a reason. But switching build systems
won't be frictionless, so I'm not in favor of it unless there's a
clear payoff.
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