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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 20.11.2021, 22:39

My complaint was not specifically against AutoConf nor ./configure (although it could be argued that a POSIX shell that requires POSIX-only fork() is perhaps not portable enough to rely upon so much).

My complaint isn't even against POSIX (although some things like m4, required by AutoConf, are weak and underspecified and somewhat unreliable, thus demanding non-portable extensions).

Part of my complaint is that certain projects aren't really "portable" and thus only cater to the obvious Linux or *BSD crowds (and also forcibly Windows, if even, because of marketshare). You know, the projects who are "POSIX only!" and won't even accept working patches (!) for impure hybrid environments like DJGPP.

For example, as nice as GNU Sed is, and how wonderful it is that we have a port at all, they rely heavily on Gnulib. I would prefer the simplicity of Minised instead.

Long story short: my used copy of _Software Tools in Pascal_ (Kernighan, Plaugher) arrived today. Hopefully it'll teach me something. :-D

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