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Re: proposal: inetd improvements.
On 1275478982 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
der Mouse wrote:
>
>> 9. convert it to libevent for portability and provide autoconf
>> so that it can be built on other OSes (not used on NetBSD
>> of course).
>
>Well, IMO autoconf is not an improvement. My opinion on autoconf (or
>more precisely on configure scripts, especially autoconf-generated
>configure scripts) can be found in my blah post of last November at
>ftp.rodents-montreal.org:/mouse/blah/2009-11-20-1.html (also available
>over HTTP at
>http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/2009-11-20-1.html).
Please note that I said ``not used on NetBSD of course''. I don't
like autoconf any more than you do. I just have constraints where
it is the accepted solution, however suboptimal.
--
Roland Dowdeswell http://Imrryr.ORG/~elric/
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