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Re: Autotools lint tool
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: Autotools lint tool |
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Thu, 3 Oct 2019 17:06:18 -0500 (CDT) |
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, Warren Young wrote:
That’s not reality, though we are approaching it slowly. “Real”
Unix is all but dead now, the Linuxes are converging on a few major
types, and the fragmentation in the BSDs seems to have reached a
practical limit. Alternatives like macOS and Windows WSL hew to one
of the above standards. The OS compatibility problems we have these
days are nowhere near as bad as those in which the Autotools were
created.
“Real” Unix seems to be doing fine to me. It is available in free
software form with a strong developer base.
I do agree with your notion of convergence on common standards, and
that is what has been happening continually since the late 1980s.
It is no longer necessary to test for 'echo' since 'printf' is now
commonly available (for a long time) and works reliably.
Many existing common tests found in Autoconf scripts can just be
removed since standards have made them unnecessary.
Bob
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