Re: Autom4te::General

[Akim Demaille]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz said:

>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Akim> It should be possible to merge it again with its Automake peer?
>
> I think it would be hard in the present state, because this file
> carries too many unrelated things, some of them conflicting with
> Automake's architecture.
>
> Right now I'd like to update the Automake copy to use
> Channels.pm.  I think this is the most important issue.  Since
> my recent playing with Autoconf's handling of $? and $!, I'm
> convinced that relying on `die' or other `Carp' friend to output
> diagnostics is plain wrong.  The only sane way to display an
> error is 'print STDERR' + `exit'.  This is what Channels.pm
> does.  Doing this allows not to mess with $? and $! at all.

I'm fine with Autoconf using Channels!  So feel free to change
General to using Channels if you like it better.  You can also
split it into several bits if you wish.  I'll make a wrapper then
for Autoconf executables (I don't want to play with tons of
use in all these scripts, because they are many, but I agree from
a library point of view, General is ill-designed).

(Err, and of course I'm justing expressing my opinion, and by
no means asking you to do it :)