Re: [Groff] Automake migration proposal

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Before starting the tests, i have verified that master still works
> fine, so issues i am finding are indeed due to changes on the
> automake branch, not due to unrelated commits, and don't affect the
> master.

Thanks for doing the tests!

> It won't come as a surprise that i consider the whole direction this
> is taking completely insane.  We shouldn't pile layers and layers of
> abstraction on top of each other, always more and more, becoming
> more and more complex and hence, more an more error-prone,
> unmaintainable, and insecure.

Do you say that relying on gnulib and automake makes groff less
maintainable?  I strongly disagree.  Of course, I'm a GNU person, and
you aren't...

> Even autoconf is basically obsolete today.

It is certainly not, as long as operating systems like OS X are such
an incomplete mess.

> Besides, the diff is completely unreviewable.  It literally is a
> 154479 line diff (yes, over 150 thousand lines of changes) touching
> 261 files.

I agree, thus my request to put this into a branch.  However, it is a
*huge* amount of work to split this into smaller chunks, ...


    Werner