David Bremner wrote:
> Xīcò <xico@atelo.org> writes:
> > As a side note, is there any rationale for the hand-made configure? Not
> > that I am a big fan of autoconf/cmake/whatever either...
> 
> Carl Worth had a lot of (negative) experience with autoconf when he
> started the project, which motivated him to roll his own.  Personally I
> don't really think any of the alternatives are convincingly better than
> autoconf. Of course it's one of those very subjective things.

I think Makefiles are superior to autoconf. What we have is fine.

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Felipe Contreras